In re Lauritano

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 23, 1987, which assessed the employer for additional unemployment insurance contributions.

The employer herein, a real estate appraiser, has been assessed additional unemployment contributions for other real estate appraisers who performed work assigned to them by the employer on the ground that they were his employees rather than independent contractors. In our view, that decision must be reversed for lack of substantial evidence that an employment relationship exists between the employer and the various other…