Questão jurídica principal
Whether the CHF 16,000 severance payment had to be included in the insured earnings.
Decisão extraída
No. The severance payment was a voluntary employer benefit under Art. 11a AVIG and, because it did not exceed the statutory threshold, it had no effect on the insured earnings calculation.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 11a AVIG replaced the earlier case law: voluntary employer payments are disregarded only up to the statutory threshold. Since the payment did not affect the chargeability of the loss of work, it likewise could not raise the insured earnings under Art. 37 AVIV and Art. 10g AVIV.