Vector Marketing Corp. v. Employment Department

Petitioner, Vector Marketing Corp. (Vector), seeks judicial review of a final order of the Employment Department that determines, among other things, that Vector was an employer of salespeople of Cutco cutlery from the fourth quarter of 2008 to the fourth quarter of 2011 and, accordingly, was required to pay unemployment insurance tax. Vector contends that its arrangement with the salespeople, who performed demonstrations of the products in consumers’ homes and were paid, in part, based on the number of demonstrations performed, is excluded from the general definition of “employment” in ORS…