Communications manager and bookkeeper are “employees”
An appellate court in New York has affirmed a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board that the communications manager and a bookkeeper for the state Sheriffs’ Association, a nonprofit trade association, are employees for whom additional unemployment compensation insurance contributions are required. The Court said the test for employment status was whether the alleged employer “exercises control over the results produced … or the means used to achieve the results.” Both individuals were represented on the Association’s website as staff members and had email addresses and contact phone numbers at the Association. They were both provided office space, equipment and supplies,...
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