ROSA M. ROBLES, APPELLANT,
v.
VICTORIA'S SECRET STORE, INC., AND FLORIDA UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS COMMISSION, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 2005-02-02
No. 3D04-801
Wells, J., Shepherd, J.
900 So. 2d 600 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2005)

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Synopsis

Florida appellate court affirmed the Unemployment Appeals Commission's determination that an employee was discharged for misconduct and therefore disqualified from unemployment benefits.


Holding

An employee discharged for misconduct is disqualified from receiving unemployment compensation benefits.


Headnotes

[1] A single act in violation of company policy may constitute misconduct disqualifying an employee from unemployment compensation benefits under Florida law.

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Facts & Procedural History

Rosa Robles was discharged from her employment at Victoria's Secret Store, Inc. The Unemployment Appeals Commission concluded she was discharged for m…

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Opinion of the Court
WELLS, Judge.

WELLS, Judge.

We affirm the final order of the Unemployment Appeals Commission which concluded that the claimant was discharged for misconduct connected with her employment. See Brooks v. Unemployment Appeals Comm’n, 695 So. 2d 879 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997)(concluding that unemployment compensation claimant engaged in misconduct, so as to be disqualified from receiving benefits, when he altered his attendance records to show that he had been at work when he had not); Ford v. Southeast Atlantic Corp., 588 So. 2d 1039, 1041 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991)(concluding that employee was properly denied benefits and observing “repeated' acts in violation of company policy are not necessary to - constitute misconduct within the meaning of Chapter 443”); Alles v. Dep’t of Prof'l Regulation, 423 So. 2d 624, 625-26 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982)(eiting to Chapter 120 and observing “[t]he agency in its final order may reject or modify the conclusions of law and interpretation of administrative rules in the recommended order, but may not reject or modify the findings of fact unless the agency first determines from a review of the complete record, and states with particularity in the order, that the findings of fact were not based upon competent substantial evidence or that the proceedings on which the findings ' were based did not comply with essential requirements of law”).

Affirmed.

SHEPHERD, J., concurs.

Dissent
COPE, J.

[*601] COPE, J.

(dissenting).

The referee found the conduct at issue here involved poor judgment but not misconduct. The record supports that determination. See Borrego v. Fla. Unemployment Appeals Comm’n, 884 So. 2d 520, 521 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004). The Unemployment Appeals Commission should not have overturned that determination.


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