Mitchell v. Sielaff

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Phyllis Gangel-Jacob, J.), entered on or about January 17, 1992, which denied petitioner’s application pursuant to CPLR article 78 to annul respondents’ determination terminating petitioner’s probationary employment, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

A probationary employee may be terminated without a hearing and without reasons being given, absent bad faith, which it is the employee’s burden to show (see, Kroboth v Sexton, 160 AD2d 126, 129). Petitioner fails to meet that burden here. The record shows that after agreeing…