Matter of Francois v. Walcott

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Shlomo Hagler, J.), entered October 6, 2014, which denied the petition seeking to annul respondents’ determination terminating petitioner’s employment as a probationary guidance counselor, to direct respondents to vacate petitioner’s unsatisfactory rating for the 2012-2013 school year, and to reinstate her employment, and dismissed the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

It is well established that a “probationary employee may be discharged for any or no reason at all in the absence of a showing that…