Matter of Production Processing Inc. (Commr. of Labor)

Appeals from four decisions of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 9, 2014, which ruled, among other things, that certain unemployment insurance experience ratings transferred to Production Processing Inc., Power Payroll Inc., FSI Processing Inc. and Film Payment Services Inc. pursuant to Labor Law § 581.

Producers Payroll Inc., owned by Gregory Pickert, and FPS Payroll Services Inc., owned by Robert Oberman, processed payrolls for various companies in the entertainment industry. Both companies, which operated out of the same address, ceased operations in New York at the end of…