Questão jurídica principal
Whether the employer had to be retroactively affiliated to the Bern family allowance fund for 2002-2005.
Decisão extraída
No; retroactive affiliation was not justified because the employer had already declared the employees to the Valais fund and the Berne fund would not be financing corresponding benefits.
Fundamentação extraída
The late notice requirement was only procedural. Where it is undisputed that employees receive the same family allowances from another canton, imposing a double affiliation serves no protected interest and amounts to excessive formalism in applying cantonal law.