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Instructors deemed employees for unemployment comp

Instructors deemed employees for unemployment comp

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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