In re the Claims of Brandon

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 18, 1989, which ruled that claimants were ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because their employer was not liable for unemployment insurance contributions.

Claimants were Florida residents who worked picking apples on the employer’s farm in New York at various times during the third and/or fourth quarters of 1983. Pursuant to Labor Law § 564 (1) (a), if the employer paid cash remuneration of $20,000 or more in any calendar quarter of a year to persons employed in agricultural labor on its farm…