Porter v. Florida Unemployment Appeals Commission

Shirley Porter appeals a final order of the Unemployment Appeals Commission (the Commission) affirming an appeals referee’s decision holding her disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits because she voluntarily left work without good cause attributable to her employer. Finding no competent and substantial evidence in the record that supports the referee’s finding that she left work voluntarily, we reverse.

At issue here is whether the employer proved a “voluntary quit” on August 7, 2007. “After a claimant proves that her employment has ended and that she has not worked for at least a…