Munich v. City of Lackawanna Department of Public Safety

—Judgment unanimously reversed on the law without costs and petition dismissed. Memorandum: Supreme Court erred in granting the petition and annulling the determination terminating petitioner’s employment as a *960probationary firefighter with respondent City of Lackawanna (City). “It is axiomatic that a probationary employee may be discharged without a hearing and without a statement of the reasons for doing so provided the dismissal was not for a constitutionally impermissible purpose or in violation of statutory or decisional law” (Matter of Park-Cunningham v City of Watertown, 186 AD2d 1027,…