Lyons v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

BELSON, Associate Judge:

This is a petition for review of a final decision of the Department of Employment Services (DOES) denying unemployment compensation on the basis that petitioner voluntarily quit her job without good cause connected with the work when she left her employment because of her serviceman husband’s transfer to an overseas assignment. We affirm.

Petitioner Cozetta Lyons left her civilian job as a cashier at the Bolling Air Force Base commissary when her husband, on active duty in the United States Air Force, was reassigned overseas. As a result, petitioner stated, the family…