Key legal question
Whether the claimant had a right to unemployment benefits despite being married to the company’s controlling officer.
Extracted holding
No. As long as the company had not been dissolved or put into liquidation and she remained linked to it through her husband, she was still in a position to influence the employer’s decisions, so unemployment benefits were excluded.
Extracted reasoning
The Court applied the established analogy between unemployment insurance and work-reduction insurance: a person or spouse in a position comparable to an employer is excluded where the risk of self-determined reemployment remains. No evidence showed that the company had been dissolved or entered liquidation, and the claimant’s own statements indicated continuing links and the possibility of reactivating the business.