In re the Claim of Sortina

Kane, J. P.

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 18, 1989, which assessed the employer for additional unemployment insurance contributions.

*923The employer is a brokerage firm appealing from the decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board which found claimant and other similarly situated securities sales representatives to be employees for the purposes of unemployment insurance benefits. Having reviewed the record, we are unpersuaded by the employer’s arguments and conclude that the decision should be affirmed.

We initially note that the record…