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CLAIMANT WAS NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF A COMPANY RUNNING A WEBSITE AND APP TO CONNECT PET OWNERS WITH PET SITTERS, WALKERS AND BOARDERS, ETC. (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board (“Board”), determined claimant was not an employee of Rover, a website which connects pet owners to pet sitters, walkers, boarders, etc.:

Rover only exercises control over the platform that a provider uses to find client pet owners and not any part of the job itself … , and this type of incidental control over the provider’s services is insufficient to establish an employer-employee relationship … . More analogous to fitness instructors and odd-job taskers, and, in contrast to Uber drivers or Postmates couriers, providers are individually selected by their client pet owners and “have the ability to create a following or generate their own [repeat] customer base” … . As Rover does not exercise any control over the manner in which the providers perform their services, the means used or results produced, substantial evidence does not support the Board’s determination that Rover exercised sufficient direction, supervision and control over the providers to demonstrate an employment relationship … . Matter of Hawkins (A Place for Rover Inc.–Commissioner of Labor), 2021 NY Slip Op 05748, Third Dept 10-21-21​

 

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