Hi everyone!

TL;DR:
Can I get RAV benefits after being laid off by my current employer while also owning a Gmbh where I've previously worked?

Long story:

In the last 12 months I've been working for a large company in Zürich. It is a possibility to be blacklisted for the next firing series.

Before working here, I've been employed for a small company where I was a minority shareholder.

Now I own it 100%, but I have no plans to use it in the near future (next 2-3 years). It has no clients and not much left in the bank.

I know that RAV asks if you or your spouse own or control a company.

Now to go back to the question:

In case I am laid off from my current employer, can RAV hold against me the fact that I own a company where I also worked in the last 24 months?

Thank you!

A terminated employee, employed for at least six months by a third-party company and who has paid into the ALV for at least 12 months, should be entitled to receive unemployment compensation from the ALK (Kasse). Please see this webpage (English) and also para. B30 at the AVIG-Praxi link at bottom of the webpage (German):

https://www.kmu.admin.ch/kmu/en/home...-employer.html

Thank you, @Mullhollander

This is exactly what I was looking for.

I feel much more relaxed now.

No need to close the company.

Have a great day!

Hi TimLeb
Did you manage to be successful with the process? I am in similar case...
Thanks

I contracted through an own GmbH which of which Mrs nickatbasel and I were co-directors.

During that time Mrs nickatbasel had been working for several years for BigPharmaCo AG and was made redundant.

When signing up to RAV the question came up from RAV's Herr Federfuchser about the co-directorship. In the end asked the lawyer who helped us set up our GmbH what to do - she phoned the RAV office and asked someone she knew at the RAV office to set Herr Federfuchser straight.

There were no problems from RAV after that.

Mrs nickatbasel found a new job some months later.

HTH.
Nick

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