Question juridique clé
Whether the cantonal two-year transition period could delay an employer's switch to a family allowance fund managed by its AVS fund after 1 January 2009.
Solution extraite
No. The transitional rule in Valais could not lawfully postpone the federally granted possibility to affiliate with a family allowance fund managed by the employer's AVS fund.
Motifs extraits
The LAFam allows AVS-managed family allowance funds to operate in the cantons once duly notified. The cantonal transitional rule effectively suspended that federal entitlement for two years, which is incompatible with the primacy of federal law under Art. 49 Cst.; the canton had no room to defer the application of Art. 14 let. c LAFam.