IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA 
FIFTH DISTRICT JULY TERM 2002 
NANCY P. SMITH, 
Appellant, 
v. CASE NO. 5D01-3586 
UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS 
COMMISSION, 
Appellee. 
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Opinion filed August 23, 2002 
Administrative Appeal from the 
Unemployment Appeals Commission. 
Nancy P. Smith, Orlando, pro se. 
John D. Maher, Tallahassee, 
for Appellee. 
SHARP, W., J. 

Smith appeals from a final order of the Unemployment Appeals Commission, affirming the appeals 
referee's determination that she was not entitled to unemployment compensation benefits. Smith failed to 
furnish this court with a transcript of the hearing before the appeals referee.1 We affirm. 

Smith worked for Walt Disney World Hospitality Recreation Corporation as a resort/guest services 
manager from December 1988 through June 2001, when she accepted a severance package and left
employment. She applied for unemployment benefits. They were denied. She appealed and a hearing was 
held before the appeals referee. 

The appeals referee concluded that Smith voluntarily quit her job in order to participate in her 
employer's "voluntary separation program." The referee made the following fact-finding and legal 
conclusion: 
	At the time that the claimant chose to participate in the voluntary 
	separation program, the claimant had not been advised that she was being 
	laid off. Continuing work was available to the claimant. Although the 
	separation package might have been attractive, in the absence of explicit 
	notice of layoff, it has not been shown that the claimant left work with 
	good cause attributable to the employer within the meaning of the law. 

An employee who voluntarily leaves work without good cause attributable to his or her employer 
is disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits. § 443.101(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2001). Whether an 
employee left employment voluntarily and whether the leaving was without good cause are questions of fact. 
Brown v. Unemployment Appeals Commission, 2002 WL 1482620, 27 Fla. Law Weekly D1605 (Fla. 
5th DCA July 12, 2002). In some circumstances, an employee's acceptance of a severance package on 
leaving employment does not bar unemployment compensation. See LeCroy v. Unemployment Appeals 
Commission, 654 So. 2d 1054 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995). However, the claimant must establish facts to show 
the employee was faced with certain discharge or loss of job in any event. The appeals referee held that 
Smith had failed to prove these circumstances. 

The appeals referee's determinations of fact are presumed correct and it is impossible for Smith 
to establish error without a transcript. McGill v. Unemployment Appeals Commission, 2002 WL
1301470, 27 Fla. L. Weekly D1391 (Fla. 5th DCA June 14, 2002); Fryburg v. Unemployment 
Appeals Commission, 799 So.2d 281 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001). 

AFFIRMED. 
HARRIS and ORFINGER, R.B., JJ., concur.