ALBANY – A prominent promoter of musical tours must pay unemployment insurance assessments to New York state for the shows’ musicians despite the promoter’s claim that the players are independent contractors and not employees, an appeals court decided Thursday.
Columbia Artists Management exhibited sufficient control over the musicians to be responsible for the unemployment insurance payments on their behalf, an Appellate Division, Third Department panel unanimously ruled in Matter of Columbia Artists Management [Commissioner of Labor], 515768.
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