You’ll generally have the same legal rights and protections as if you were a permanent employee. If there are any problems during the probation period, your employer must follow a fair disciplinary or dismissal process.
As with permanent employees, you’ll have the right to take a personal grievance for unjustified dismissal to the Employment Relations Authority if you’re dismissed at the end of the probation period (see the chapter “Resolving employment problems”). However, in deciding whether the reason for your dismissal and the process your employer followed were fair, the Authority may hold the employer to a lower standard than if you were a permanent employee.
By contrast with a “probation” period, an employee that’s on a “trial” period can’t bring a personal grievance for unjustified dismissal (see the next section).