The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXI
LABOR

Chapter 448
GENERAL LABOR REGULATIONS

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F.S. 448.03

448.03 Threat of discharge to compel employee to trade with any particular firm or person; penalty.—Any person or persons, firm, joint stock company, association or corporation organized, chartered or incorporated by and under the laws of this state, either as owner or lessee, having persons in their service as employees, who shall discharge any employee or threaten to discharge any employee in their service for trading or dealing, or for not trading or dealing as a customer or patron with any particular merchant or other person or class of persons in any business calling, or shall notify any employee either by general or special notice, directly or indirectly, secretly or openly given, not to trade or deal as a customer or patron with any particular merchant or person or class of persons in any business or calling, under penalty of being discharged from the service of such person, firm, joint stock company, corporation or association shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 5015, 1901; GS 3233; RGS 5066; CGL 7168; s. 374, ch. 71-136.

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Amendments to 448.03

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 448.03

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S448.03 - EXTORT - THREATEN TO DISCHARGE EMPLOYEE - M: F

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

SMITH, v. SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY, INC. d b a, 872 So. 2d 992 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2004)

. . . Smith alleged that City Mazda violated FDUTPA by violating section 448.03, Florida Statutes, which prohibits . . . Smith alleges that City Mazda violated section 448.03, which proscribes an unfair method of competition . . . Section 448.03 provides in part that: Any person or persons, firm, joint stock company, association or . . .

TEMPLE, v. S. AUJLA, M. D., 681 So. 2d 1198 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)

. . . Temple brought suit pursuant to section 448.03, Florida Statutes (1995) alleging retaliatory termination . . . appeal, Temple asserts that the trial court should not have entered summary judgment even though section 448.03 . . . the legislature did afford a remedy, albeit a criminal one, for one found to have violated section 448.03 . . . guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. § 448.03 . . . It enacted no similar provision in section 448.03. . . . That firing was violative of a criminal statute which says: 448.03 Threat of discharge to compel employee . . .