Kyle Eidson, CSC Docket No. 2025-996
NJ Civil Service Commission decision of September 2, 2026, CSC Docket No. 2025-996: working test period, penalty upheld. Kyle Eidson, a Firefighter, with Woodbridge Township Fire Department, Fire District 1, appeals release at the end of his working test period, effective October 5, 2024.
Commission decisions · Meeting of September 2, 2026
Kyle Eidson, a Firefighter, with Woodbridge Township Fire Department, Fire District 1, appeals release at the end of his working test period, effective October 5, 2024.
- Matter
- Working test period
- Decided
- September 2, 2026, item A-4
- Outcome
- Penalty upheld
- ALJ's recommendation
- Uphold the release at the end of the working test period.
- What the Commission did with it
- Adopted the ALJ's recommendation
- Title
- FIRE FIGHTER
- Employer
- Woodbridge Township
- Chair at the time
- Mary Cruz, 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
BackgroundThe appeal of Kyle Eidson, Fire Fighter, with Woodbridge Township Fire Department, Fire District 1, of his release at the end of the working test period, effective October 5, 2024, was before Administrative Law Judge Michael R. Stanzione (ALJ), who rendered his initial summary decision on August 6, 2026. 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 September 2, 2026, accepted the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of the ALJ as well as his recommendation to uphold the release 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. 4A: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 ALJ, the appellant has clearly not satisfied that burden.
ORDER
The Civil Service Commission finds that the action of the appointing authority in releasing the appellant at the end of the working test period was justified. The Commission therefore upholds that action and dismisses the appeal of Kyle Edison.
ClosingThis is the final administrative determination in this matter. Any further review should be pursued in a judicial forum.
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