2 person varsity crews this year

[ilyazhito]

How would Independent Contractor vs Employee status affect how many officials work varsity games? AFAIK, officials who want to work 3-person varsity can join 3-person associations and conferences if they are IC's, but they have to accept whatever PIAA (or another state governing body) or the association tells them if they are employees? If they are employees, PIAA, the association, etc. would have to pay them benefits and withhold income in taxes, and follow anti-discrimination statues, so I don't know if associations are willing to do that, even if they want to exert the control over officials that employers currently have over their employees.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by ilyazhito

... follow anti-discrimination statues.

I find this topic to be quite interesting, but I'm not a labor attorney, nor do I play one on television, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express recently.

Let's see if I've got this straight.

It is possible for basketball officials to be legally discriminated against in regard to level and number of assignments, said discrimination based solely on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, etc., because while one person (assigner), or assigning organization (board, association, conference, state association), assigns the games, another writes the payment checks (schools, school systems, municipalities, the state, conferences, the state association, etc.).

So, using me for an example, our local assignment commissioner, hired on a one year contract by my local board, supervised by our local board's executive committee, who assigns 100% of all regular season high school games and all post season conference/league playoff high school games, in our local geographic area, as well as many middle school games, can legally discriminate against me because I'm white, male, heterosexual, sixty-four years old, a Democrat, Irish-American, or Catholic, and legally get away with it because all my payment checks come from schools, school systems, municipalities, or the state, who don't assign any games. Also I never, ever get any form of payment from my local board.



Even if my specifics are off, am I, at least, on the right track?

So, the government, (in those unmarked black helicopters), and all their civil rights laws, and all their tax payer funded attorneys in their fancy suits, in all their oak furnished courtrooms, with their black robed judges, can't legally stop such discrimination.

Somehow, that just doesn't seem right in the land of liberty and justice for all.

I guess that sometimes you just can't legislate against all forms of civil rights discrimination, and individuals have the legal right to act in such a way, the price we pay for living in a land of freedom.

Sometimes we're free to do what some, but not all, consider stupid, immoral, or wrong.

Now, if the Forum wants to discriminate against Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. because he's older than dirt, I can certainly go along with that.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Somehow, that just doesn't seem right in the land of liberty and justice for all. I guess that sometimes you just can't legislate against all forms of discrimination, and individuals have the legal right to act in such a way, the price we pay for living in a land of freedom.

Let's get this guy to fight for civil rights. After all it's his job to fight a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way.