Question juridique clé
Whether the claimant was liberated from the contribution-period requirement under Art. 14 LACI because she stopped working to care for her son.
Solution extraite
No liberation ground was established, because the disappearance of caregiving duties did not create the economic need to resume employment.
Motifs extraits
Art. 14 para. 2 LACI and Art. 13 para. 1bis OACI require a causal link between the qualifying event and the need to take or extend paid work. Caring for a person in itself is insufficient unless the cessation of that assistance eliminates a source of income and forces renewed employment. Here, the claimant's social assistance continued and no income source disappeared.