Questão jurídica principal
Whether the bridging pension paid to a former RAV employee is reimbursable as ALV administrative costs
Decisão extraída
No. The bridging pension was not reimbursable from the unemployment insurance equalization fund because the early retirement was voluntary and not due to economic reasons.
Fundamentação extraída
The SECO guidelines limiting reimbursement to cases of economically necessary early retirement were treated as binding concretizing administrative instructions. The cantonal employment-law basis did not require the federal fund to cover such costs unconditionally.