Question juridique clé
Whether the respondent was barred from unemployment benefits as a cooperating spouse in an employer-like business.
Solution extraite
The exclusion based on case law on employer-like persons and their spouses did not apply because the claimed unemployment arose from the prior employment with another employer, not from the spouse’s business.
Motifs extraits
The risk of unprovable work-loss and abuse under Art. 31(3)(c) AVIG concerns self-created or manipulated unemployment in the employer-like business. Here the insured became unemployed through a medically motivated dismissal from a different job, so the spouse’s business was not the source of the insured event.