MATTER OF RIOS


279 A.D.2d 681 (2001)

719 N.Y.S.2d 718

In the Matter of the Claim of MINERVA L. RIOS, Respondent. LA PRAIRIE, INC., Appellant; COMMISSIONER OF LABOR, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided January 4, 2001.


La Prairie, Inc., a cosmetics distributor whose products are sold at department stores, challenges a determination of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ruling that claimant and other similarly situated freelance makeup artists are its employees rather than independent contractors. The record reveals that claimant was hired by La Prairie to work at a department store makeup counter applying cosmetics to customers during a two-week sales promotion. Although claimant applied...

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