CHIMES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, INC. v. King

I write separately to explain why I dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc.

Patricia King, a hearing-impaired janitorial worker, voluntarily quit her job in the eighth month of a high-risk pregnancy that had already caused her to exhaust her entire 16 weeks of statutory Family Medical Leave, pursuant to a medically-approved absence, by the sixth month of her pregnancy. The Office of Administrative Hearings affirmed a claims examiner’s award to King of unemployment benefits pursuant to D.C.Code. § 51-110(a) (2006), finding that she left her job “for good cause connected with the work.”…