NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT - v. GRAHAM-WHITE ASSOCIATES, INC.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE

APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION

SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY

APPELLATE DIVISION

DOCKET NO. A-3903-08T33903-08T3

NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,

Petitioner-Respondent,

v.

GRAHAM-WHITE ASSOCIATES, INC.,

T/A THE MASSAGE CENTER,

Respondent-Appellant.

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Submitted July 6, 2010 - Decided

Before Judges Skillman and Wefing.

On appeal from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Docket No. 08-0022.

Monzo Catanese, attorneys for appellant (Anthony P. Monzo, on the brief).

Paula T. Dow, Attorney General, attorney for respondent (Lewis A. Scheindlin, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Alan C. Stephens, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

PER CURIAM

Appellant Graham-White Associates, Inc., t/a The Massage Center, appeals from a final decision of the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, issued March 2, 2009, which determined that the massage therapists who worked at appellant's facility were employees within the intent of the Unemployment Compensation Law, N.J.S.A. 43:21-1 to -24.30, and ordered appellant to pay the Department of Labor and Workforce's assessments of unpaid contributions to the unemployment compensation fund and State disability benefits fund for the period from January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2004. We affirm substantially for the reasons set forth in the Commissioner's final decision.

Affirmed.

 

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