Porubsky v. Reemployment Assistance Appeals Commission

208 So. 3d 322, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 132

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: January 6, 2017
• Docket: Case 5D16-2346
• Status: Published

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

Dina Porubsky appeals from a final order of the Reemployment Assistance Appeals Commission, which affirmed a referee’s decision to disqualify her from receiving unemployment benefits. Having carefully considered Ms. Porubsky’s arguments on appeal and the record before us, we affirm. See, e.g., Parker v. Unemployment Appeals Comm’n, 41 So.3d 1090, 1090 (Fla. 5th DCA 2010) (“An appeal referee’s factual determinations are ordinarily presumed to be correct ... [and thus], if there is substantial competent evidence in the record to support the appeal referee’s findings ... this court must affirm.”) (citations omitted). 1

AFFIRMED.

ORFINGER, EVANDER and WALLIS, JJ., concur.

1 . We are unable to review the evidentiary basis for the referee’s findings because Ms. Porubsky did not include a transcript of the hearing in the record on appeal. See Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee, 377 So.2d 1150, 1152 (Fla. 1979) (holding that without record of trial proceedings, court cannot review underlying evidence so as to conclude that trial court's judgment is not supported by evidence or by alternative theory). Because there is no transcript, we must assume that the referee’s findings of work-related misconduct are supported by the evidence. See Roach v. Unemployment Appeals Comm’n, 873 So.2d 617, 618 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004).