Instructors deemed employees for unemployment comp
An appellate court in New York has affirmed an Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board determination that instructors at a nonprofit performing arts school are employees for whom the school must make payments for unemployment compensation insurance. Although it said that the evidence would also support a contrary determination, it affirmed the Board on the basis of substantial evidence to justify the decision. Primary Stages Company, a nonprofit theater company that also operates a small school for different types of performing artists, employed Sheri Wilner as a playwriting instructor. She was paid a flat fee of $1900 per class. The school furnished the classroom and a teaching assistant...
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