VAUGHN v. FLA. UNEMP. APPEALS COM'N

No. 85-821.

482 So.2d 593 (1986)

Peggy A. VAUGHN, Appellant, v. FLORIDA UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS COMMISSION, and Shop & Go, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sid Garcia of Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc., Belle Glade and William E. Adams, Jr. of Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

William T. Moore, Tallahassee, for appellee-Unemployment Appeals Com'n.


PER CURIAM.

At issue is whether an individual who refuses to take a polygraph examination may be denied unemployment compensation benefits where submission to such examination was not a term of the employment contract. We answer in the negative and reverse.

Appellant managed a convenience store for approximately four years. On several occasions, at the owner/company's request, appellant took a polygraph examination. In 1984 the company noted inventory shortages...

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