Key legal question
Whether the claimant met the unemployment-insurance contribution-period requirement.
Extracted holding
The earlier refusals could not stand because the decisive question is whether the claimant actually performed insured work, not whether wages were effectively paid.
Extracted reasoning
Under art. 13 LACI, the right to benefits depends in principle on having exercised an activity subject to contributions during the minimum period; actual wage payment is only an important evidentiary indicator, not an additional legal condition.