Key legal question
Whether the respondent could claim unemployment benefits despite having worked in his wife's business as spouse of an employer-like person.
Extracted holding
No entitlement existed for the relevant period; a short factual separation did not suffice to remove the exclusion.
Extracted reasoning
The exclusion for spouses of employer-like persons serves to prevent abuse and must be applied strictly. A mere separation of a few months, without judicial separation or comparable long-lasting irreversibility, does not yet prove a definitive end to the relationship or the risk of collusive reinstatement.