Key legal question
Whether the contribution period had to be extended because the claimant had carried on self-employment without unemployment benefits.
Extracted holding
Yes. The contribution framework had to be extended by the duration of the self-employment, up to the statutory maximum.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 9a para. 2 LACI requires preservation of pre-existing rights by extending the contribution period for the exact duration of self-employment, provided the self-employment has definitively ceased.