Key legal question
Whether the claimant satisfied the contribution period for unemployment benefits after switching to self-employment.
Extracted holding
Yes. Her self-employment was deemed abandoned at the time of registration for benefits, so the extended contribution-period rules applied and she showed at least 12 months of contributions.
Extracted reasoning
The court found, on the balance of probabilities, that she had fundamentally given up self-employment and was ready to take up employment at any time. The small March 2005 income was only interim income and, given the duty to mitigate loss, did not indicate continued self-employment. Therefore Art. 9a Abs. 2 AVIG extended the reference period.