Case Name: Jermaine L. KENNEDY, Appellant, v. FLORIDA UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS COMMISSION and Americas Mortgage Professional, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2010-11-05
Citations: 46 So. 3d 1192
Docket Number: No. 1D10-0669
Parties: Jermaine L. KENNEDY, Appellant, v. FLORIDA UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS COMMISSION and Americas Mortgage Professional, Appellees.
Judges: BENTON, PADOVANO, and CLARK, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 46
Pages: 1192–1193

Head Matter:
Jermaine L. KENNEDY, Appellant, v. FLORIDA UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS COMMISSION and Americas Mortgage Professional, Appellees.
No. 1D10-0669.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Nov. 5, 2010.
Jermaine L. Kennedy, pro se, Appellant.
Geri Atkinson-Hazelton and Louis A. Gutierrez, Unemployment Appeals Commission, Tallahassee, for Appellees.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The Unemployment Appeals Commission erred as a matter of law when it determined that Jermaine L. Kennedy received an overpayment of unemployment compensation benefits during his period of unpaid training. Kennedy's uncompensated training did not constitute employment so as to disqualify him from receiving unemployment benefits. See Winters v. Fla. Unemployment Appeals Comm'n, 858 So.2d 1218 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003); Smith v. Bankers Life & Cas. Co., 852 So.2d 297 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003).
REVERSED and REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
BENTON, PADOVANO, and CLARK, JJ., concur.