Question juridique clé
Whether the claimant was excluded from unemployment benefits because of an employer-like position in his own company.
Solution extraite
A mere registration as managing shareholder and single signatory does not by itself settle whether the claimant is excluded; the decisive question is whether he was pursuing a durable self-employment that made him unavailable for employee work.
Motifs extraits
The lower court focused too narrowly on the Handelsregister entry. The Federal Court held that when a person first leaves employment involuntarily and later founds a company, the claim must be examined also in light of employability and the concrete stage of the self-employment project.