NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING 
MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED 
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL 
OF FLORIDA 
SECOND DISTRICT 
VALORIE J. ROSIER, )
) 
Appellant, )
) 
v. ) Case No. 2D03-2308 
) 
UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS ) 
COMMISSION and SOUTHERN MILLING ) 
AND LUMBER, )
) 
Appellees. )
) 
Opinion filed May 28, 2004. 
Appeal from the Unemployment Appeals 
Commission. 
Valorie J. Rosier, pro se. 
John D. Maher, Deputy General 
Counsel, for Appellee Unemployment 
Appeals Commission. 
No appearance for Appellee 
Southern Milling and Lumber. 
SILBERMAN, Judge. 

Valorie J. Rosier challenges the denial of her claim for unemployment 
compensation benefits. Because a key factual finding that was the basis of the denial of 
benefits was not supported by competent, substantial evidence, we reverse. 

Ms. Rosier was employed by Southern Milling and Lumber as a truck 
driver between May 21, 2001, and November 12, 2002. She had a history of 
complaining about driving certain trucks, complaining about work, and discussing 
personal matters with customers and fellow employees. In October 2002 Southern 
Milling placed Ms. Rosier on thirty days' probation. Her probation terms included the 
following: 

	TRUCKS: There is to be no complaining about which truck 
	you are assigned to drive on any given day. If there are 
	legitimate safety concerns about the truck, (tires, windshield 
	wipers, etc) they should be reported to the office (Duke or 
	Vikki). 
	. . . . 
	Constant complaining will not be tolerated. If you have ideas 
	for better ways to do things, they should be addressed to the 
	appropriate person. Customers and fellow employees do 
	not have time to listen to problems they cannot solve. 

While on probation, Ms. Rosier received a twenty-five cent per hour pay 
raise. Her husband, who also worked for Southern Milling, received a fifty cent per hour 
raise. Ms. Rosier became angry about the amount of her raise and told one of her 
immediate supervisors, Duke Lilly, "that she was not getting paid enough to drive a semi 
truck, that she would only drive straight trucks." Ms. Rosier admitted that she 
complained to Mr. Lilly, stating, 
	So I went into the office and I said, okay, since I'm not doing 
	-- I didn't get as much raise because I can't complete my job 
	properly, then I'm not strapping down the pallets, I will need 
	help every time, and also because I feel my husband got a 
	raise and he basically only drove the little truck, then that is 
	all I wanted. Because I only got a raise that he supposedly 
	got for doing his job with the little truck, so that's all I wanted 
	to drive.

The next day Mr. Lloyd Herbert, a manager and vice president for 
Southern Milling, confronted Ms. Rosier about the incident. Ms. Rosier apologized for 
having a problem with her raise and told Mr. Herbert that she was fine with driving a "big 
truck." Ms. Rosier continued working that day but was discharged when she returned 
from her last delivery. Mr. Herbert testified at a hearing before the appeals referee and 
stated that drivers are not assigned to particular trucks. As trucks are loaded, drivers 
are assigned to take the next available truck. He testified that Ms. Rosier was 
terminated because she "doesn't fit our operation, nor does she have a good attitude 
with our company," and it was in the company's best interest to terminate Ms. Rosier's 
employment. 
	In her factual findings, the appeals referee stated that 
	[Ms. Rosier] was angry that she received a smaller pay raise 
	and told the production manager that she was not driving 
	semi trucks any more because she was not paid enough to 
	drive semis. [Ms. Rosier] was discharged on November 11, 
	2002, for violating the terms of her probation by complaining 
	to a co-worker that she was not paid enough to drive semi 
	trucks. 
(Emphasis added). In her conclusions of law, the referee stated that 
	upon being notified that she was on probation and that she 
	should not violate the terms of probation, the claimant was 
	obligated to abide by the directives specified in the probation 
	terms. When the claimant complained about driving semi 
	trucks and also made the complaint to a co-worker, rather 
	than her supervisor, her conduct was a willful violation of her 
	duties and obligations to the employer. Therefore, it is 
	concluded that [Ms. Rosier] was discharged for misconduct 
	connected with the work. 

(Emphasis added). The Unemployment Appeals Commission upheld the referee's 
findings and conclusions and denied unemployment compensation benefits to Ms. 
Rosier. 

In the present appeal, "the commission's order is entitled to a presumption 
of correctness." Sekinger v. Heritage Ins., Inc., 718 So. 2d 358, 359 (Fla. 2d DCA 
1998). However, the decisions of the appeals referee and the commission may be set 
aside when the decisions depend "on any finding of fact that is not supported by 
competent, substantial evidence in the record." § 120.68(7)(b), (10), Fla. Stat. (2002); 
see also Kelle v. D.H. Holmes Co., 658 So. 2d 1161, 1162 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995). 
Additionally, the commission's legal conclusion may be overturned if it is clearly 
erroneous. Eulo v. Fla. Unemployment Appeal Comm'n, 724 So. 2d 636, 637 (Fla. 2d 
DCA 1999). 

The referee's finding that Ms. Rosier violated her probation with Southern 
Milling by complaining about the raise to someone other than her supervisor is not 
supported by the record. In fact, all of the evidence reflects that Ms. Rosier directed her 
complaint to Mr. Lilly, who was the production manager and her supervisor, and nothing 
in the record suggests that Ms. Rosier's complaint should have been directed to anyone 
else. The complaint was based on the discrepancy in the amount of Ms. Rosier's raise, 
as compared to that of her husband, and it differed from the nature of the complaints 
that led to her being placed on probation. Therefore, we conclude that the evidence 
submitted to the referee does not support the conclusion that Ms. Rosier's actions 
violated the conditions of her probation and amounted to misconduct within the meaning 
of the unemployment statute. See § 443.036(29), Fla. Stat. (2002). 

Because the referee's determination that Ms. Rosier violated her 
probationary status and was terminated for misconduct is not supported by competent, 
substantial evidence, we reverse. On remand, Ms. Rosier shall be afforded any 
unemployment benefits to which she is entitled as a result of her termination. 

Reversed and remanded. 
CASANUEVA and SALCINES, JJ., Concur.