Florida Statute 448.3 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

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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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 448.03

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

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Cases Citing Statute 448.03

Total Results: 3

Click v. Pardoll

359 So. 2d 537

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: May 30, 1978 | Docket: 1418004

Cited 2 times | Published

and Holtzoff, Federal Practice and Procedure, Section 448; 3 Moore's Federal Practice, Section 15.15 at

Smith v. 2001 South Dixie Highway, Inc.

872 So. 2d 992, 2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 6624, 2004 WL 1057794

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: May 12, 2004 | Docket: 64830506

Cited 1 times | Published

that City Mazda violated FDUTPA by violating section 448.03, Florida Statutes, which prohibits an employer

Temple v. Aujla

681 So. 2d 1198, 1996 WL 612783

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Oct 25, 1996 | Docket: 707338

Published

treatment. Temple brought suit pursuant to section 448.03, Florida Statutes (1995) alleging retaliatory