Key legal question
Whether the appellant was entitled to unemployment benefits despite being the spouse of the sole manager/associate of the former employer.
Extracted holding
No entitlement: as spouse of the sole associate-manager, she still had an employer-like connection and a potential possibility of reemployment, so the exclusion applied.
Extracted reasoning
The company still existed on the decisive date, its business purpose was broad enough to permit reemployment, and the claimant had not shown that all ties to the enterprise were definitively severed.