Lozano v. Florida Unemployment Appeals Commission

Elsy Lozano appeals from an order of the Unemployment Appeals Commission affirming the referee’s recommended denial of her application for unemployment compensation benefits. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Lozano worked as a data entry clerk for the Department of Corrections. She previously worked in one of the Department’s downtown Miami offices but had requested a transfer and was reassigned to an office closer to her home in Southwest Miami-Dade County. She had a ten-minute commute to her new office. Unfortunately, her office in Southwest Miami-Dade caught fire and the employees at…