Question juridique clé
Whether a person drawing only a token salary from a controlled corporation has a right to child allowances under § 5 Abs. 3 of the cantonal family allowances statute.
Solution extraite
No. The court held that the statutory wage entitlement requires appropriate remuneration for the work performed; a merely pro-forma salary does not create entitlement to child allowances.
Motifs extraits
The allowance entitlement arises and ends with the employee's wage claim. On the evidence, the claimant was not a part-time employee but merely received a symbolic wage from the company he controlled. Because that remuneration was only a token amount and not an appropriate salary, no child allowance entitlement existed.