State or association policy ?

[Robmoz]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

The contract was simply the MHSAA's standard officials contract that used to be used.

As for contacting the MHSAA. I actually sent a letter and several emails to the MHSAA regarding the lack of payment. I did not fill out an officials report. The reason being that I was not aware I wasn't being paid properly until payroll was processed two weeks later. The problem was that at the time I was a school employee of the school district this occurred in. Unlike most districts, this district required all school employees to be paid through payroll with taxes taken out. This means we didn't know if we were not paid properly until well after the contest.

The district has since gone to ref-pay and I am no longer an employee of the district since were were privitized several years ago.

As an assignor as well as an official, taking the school to court is something that should never happen.

You work games for the school that employs you on a regular basis? Sounds like a conflict of interest violation "...In all sports, it will be considered a “conflict of interest” for any MHSAA registered official to be hired or employed by a member school..."

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by Robmoz

You work games for the school that employs you on a regular basis? Sounds like a conflict of interest violation "...In all sports, it will be considered a “conflict of interest” for any MHSAA registered official to be hired or employed by a member school..."

I said school DISTRICT, not member school. There is a difference. Not to mention, the MHSAA and the schools already knew that I work in the district, as do the majority of schools they compete against. I worked as a substitute teacher, which means I could have been in any number of schools in a given week.

As a substitute teacher you have to be careful even using the term regular basis. I might work in that school 1 or 2 times a month, given that I am registered in 15 different school districts and worked in 42 different schools last year alone.

The MHSAA has clearly stated to me previous the conflict of interest rule applies to employees who work as a REGULAR employee of the school in which they officiate.

If you were to eliminate any employee who worked in the district you would lose a lot of umpires/officials who work in one building but officiate in other buildings. A school district like Detroit uses a lot of officials who are DPS employees in some capacity as officials.



Also, maybe you should post the entire rule, not the part that specifically meets your needs for the arguement.

I have posted the entire section from the MHSAA Guidebook for you since you forgot the second half since it did not apply to your position.

"In all sports, it will be considered a “conflict of interest” for
any MHSAA registered official to be hired or employed by a
member school or coach to provide a sport-specific clinic or
training session for students at that school when that official later
officiates contests involving that school for the next 12 calendar
months."

I have decided to make it very clear the remainder of the regular which you have so nicely failed to post.

[MD Longhorn]

Most places I work, if partner doesn't show, I get nothing. One league pays an extra $10 for working alone. However, in most places if the school/team chooses to only schedule one umpire, they pay extra (like $50 instead of two $35's or $75 instead of two $50's).

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

This is one of the nice things about working in an area where a local agency handles ALL scholastic athletic matters - both scheduling games and scheduling/paying officials. This way our contracts are ALWAYS honored to the letter.

Same thing for our leagues, where our assignor always gets the $$ ahead of time, and our contracts are quite specific on these things.