Trials are not necessarily about criminal matters. Civil matters are also settled in trials.
It doesn't seem inherently unreasonable to have some process to let an employee argue that they were not given a reasonable chance to meet the demands of the job or that they actually were meeting the demands of the job and for the firing manager to argue that they were given a reasonable chance to meet the demands of the job and still were not meeting it.
It doesn't seem inherently unreasonable to have some process to let an employee argue that they were not given a reasonable chance to meet the demands of the job or that they actually were meeting the demands of the job and for the firing manager to argue that they were given a reasonable chance to meet the demands of the job and still were not meeting it.