Question juridique clé
Whether the claimant was entitled to unemployment benefits from 4 December 2005 onward despite repeated seasonal interruptions.
Solution extraite
No. His conduct showed that he knowingly accepted recurring breaks in employment and corresponding income losses, so he was not considered available for placement in the sense required for unemployment insurance.
Motifs extraits
Placement availability depends not only on objective ability to work but also on subjective readiness to accept work. The claimant's efforts were confined to construction-sector jobs, where winter unemployment was foreseeable, and he did not broaden his search to other sectors. This meant he did not take all reasonable steps to avoid unemployment.