In re the Claim of Lansky

These are cross appeals from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed May 17, 1974, which adopted and affirmed a Referee’s decision sustaining a ruling of the Industrial Commissioner that salesmen employed, as was the claimant by the appellant employer, were employees and not independent contractors.

The named employer is apparently a subsidiary corporation wholly owned by AMREP Corporation to sell real property. The employer in the present case was formed solely for the purpose of acting as real estate broker in the sale of land owned by Silver Springs Shores Development,…