Key legal question
Whether the Geneva ordinary courts or prud'hommes court had jurisdiction over the HUG claim based on the loan agreements.
Extracted holding
The ordinary courts were competent because the cantonal court could defensibly find that no employment contract existed after 30 September 1999.
Extracted reasoning
Jurisdiction under the old Geneva labour-court act depended on a labour contract; the cantonal court's conclusion that the post-1999 relationship was governed only by the loan contracts was not arbitrary, even if a suspended employment relationship was conceivable.