Matter of Mejia (Commr. of Labor)

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 17, 2014, which ruled that claimant was entitled to receive unemployment insurance benefits.

Claimant worked as a technician for the employer, a cable installation contractor, for five years. The employer allowed technicians to use their own personal vehicles for work and they received extra compensation for doing so. It also had a policy prohibiting technicians from having anyone in their vehicles during the course of the work day without authorization. On September 8, 2011, claimant reported to work driving his…