NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING 
MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED. 
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL 
OF FLORIDA 
SECOND DISTRICT 
MICHAEL J. McENERY, )
) 
Appellant, )
) 
v. ) Case No. 2D01-5762 
) 
UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS COMMISSION ) 
and NEWBERG IRRIGATION, INC., ) 
) 
Appellees. ) 
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_____________________________________ ) 
Opinion filed December 18, 2002. 
Appeal from the Unemployment Appeals 
Commission. 
Michael J. McEnery, pro se. 
John D. Maher, Deputy General Counsel, 
Unemployment Appeals Commission, 
Tallahassee, for Appellee UAC. 
No appearance for Appellee Newberg 
Irrigation, Inc. 
BLUE, Chief Judge.

Michael J. McEnery appeals the denial of unemployment compensation 
benefits based on a finding that he voluntarily left his job without good cause. Because 
McEnery left work due to illness, which constitutes good cause, we reverse. 
The appeals referee found that McEnery resigned. We accept this finding 
because it was supported by competent, substantial evidence. See Sienkiewicz v. 
Intrepid Powerboats, Inc., 774 So. 2d 739, 740 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000). 

If the employer meets the burden of showing an employee's voluntary 
departure, the employee must prove that he left for good cause in order to qualify for 
unemployment benefits. Lewis v. Lakeland Health Care Ctr., Inc., 685 So. 2d 876, 878 
(Fla. 2d DCA 1996). Good cause "includes only such cause as is attributable to the 
employing unit or which consists of illness or disability of the individual requiring 
separation from his or her work." § 443.101(1)(a)(1), Fla. Stat. (2000). "[T]he law 
permits an illness . . . to be a good cause for voluntarily leaving a job." Lewis, 685 So. 
2d at 879 (internal quotation marks omitted). Based on the competent, substantial 
evidence showing that McEnery left work because of illness, we reverse the denial of 
unemployment compensation benefits. 

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