Mesa County Public Library District v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office

¶32 I write in dissent from the opinion of the majority in part because I believe the liberties it takes in construing the unemployment insurance statutes are not justified and will substantially undermine the role statutorily assigned to “fault” in the awardability of benefits. In part, however, I simply feel compelled to highlight the irony (and perhaps absurdity) of awarding benefits on the basis of physical or mental inability to perform a job, as the result of anxiety induced by the claimant’s own failure to perform and her employer’s corresponding demand that she do so. I see little…