Priyanka Mathur, CSC Docket No. 2024-2292
NJ Civil Service Commission decision of July 23, 2025, CSC Docket No. 2024-2292: working test period, penalty upheld. Priyanka Mathur, Manager 1, Human Resources, Department of Children and Families, return to previously held permanent title at the end of the working test period, effective April 15,
Commission decisions · Meeting of July 23, 2025
Priyanka Mathur, Manager 1, Human Resources, Department of Children and Families, return to previously held permanent title at the end of the working test period, effective April 15, 2024.
- Matter
- Working test period
- Decided
- July 23, 2025, item A-5
- Outcome
- Penalty upheld
- ALJ's recommendation
- Uphold the return to previously held permanent title at the end of the working test period.
- What the Commission did with it
- Adopted the ALJ's recommendation
- Recorded vote
- Allison Chris Myers (Recused), Dolores Gorczyca (Yes), Daniel O’Mullan (Yes), Diomedes Tsitouras (Yes), Christina Mongon (Yes)
- Chair at the time
- Allison Chris Myers, Acting Chairperson
- Official decision
- CSC's PDF
Action recorded in the minutes: The Civil Service Commission affirmed the recommendation of the Administrative Law Judge.
Rules this decision applies
The decision
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BackgroundThe appeal of Priyanka Mathur, Manager 1, Human Resources, Department of Children and Families, return to previously held permanent title at the end of the working test period, effective April 15, 2024, was heard by Administrative Law Judge Michael R. Stanzione (ALJ), who rendered his initial decision on June 9, 2025. No exceptions were filed.
AnalysisHaving considered the record and the ALJ’s initial decision, and having made an independent evaluation of the record, the Civil Service Commission (Commission), at its meeting of July 23, 2025, accepted the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of the ALJ as well as his recommendation to uphold the return to the previously held permanent title at the end of the working test period,
The Commission makes the following comment. The burden of proof in an appeal of a release at the end of the working test period is on the appellant. See N.J.A.C. 44:2-1.4(c). In this regard, to be successful in such a challenge, the appellant would need to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the appointing authority effectuated the working test period in bad faith. See N.J.A.C. 4A:2-4.3(b). In this matter, as found by the ALd, the appellant has clearly not satisfied that burden.
ORDER
The Civil Service Commission finds that the action of the appointing authority in returning the appellant to her previously held permanent title at the end of the working test period was justified. The Commission therefore upholds that action and dismisses the appeal of Priyanka Mathur.
ClosingThis is the final administrative determination in this matter. Any further review should be pursued in a judicial forum.
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