Australia, June 30 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 29:
1. This appeal considers whether a 12-month probation period that applied to a NSW public servant was determined in advance and whether it was reasonable, preventing him from being able to bring an unfair dismissal claim. It requires consideration of whether r 5 of the Government Sector Employment (General) Rules 2014 (GSE Rules), which permits a 12-month probation period, has the effect of determining such a probation period to be reasonable.
2. At first instance Commissioner Muir (Commissioner), in an ex tempore decision Edward Simon v Industrial Relations Secretary in respect of Department of Customer Service (Decision), [...