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My Employee Hit a Coworker — What Are My Options Besides Firing Them?

Something physical happened on your floor — a shove, a grab, a struck arm — and now you're holding a decision: lose a good employee over one bad moment, or keep them and own the risk. There's a documented middle path, and it's built for exactly this situation.

The Real Problem Isn't the Decision — It's the Documentation

Most employers facing this already know what they want: the employee is otherwise valuable, the incident was out of character, and termination feels like losing twice. What stops them is the exposure question — if we keep them and anything ever happens again, what does our file say we did? A verbal warning says nothing. A write-up says “we noticed.” What actually protects the organization is a file that says: we responded to the incident with a substantive, documented intervention — and here is the evidence the employee completed it and understood it.

What the Documented Middle Path Looks Like

Why This Beats the Two Obvious Alternatives

Versus termination: you keep trained staff, avoid a replacement cycle, and — handled with a documented program — you've converted a liability event into evidence of a responsible conduct culture. Versus a warning and a $30 online course: click-through certificates are exactly what opposing counsel and regulators discount; a live, graded, attorney-documented program is the version that holds up when someone eventually reads the file with hostile eyes. The incident already happened — the only question is what the record says you did about it.

Practical note: pair the program with your own written expectations (a last chance agreement or conduct memo, per your counsel), so the file shows both the requirement and the completed intervention. We work alongside whatever structure your employment counsel recommends.

Discuss the Situation — Same-Day Response

Same-day enrollment, documentation from day one, and scheduling built backward from your deadline.

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Questions People Ask

Can we require an employee to complete a conduct program to keep their job?
Employers commonly make completion a condition of continued employment — often through a last chance agreement or conduct memo drafted with employment counsel. We provide the program and the documentation; the employment terms are yours and your counsel's to set.
Who pays — the company or the employee?
Either. We invoice the business directly or bill the individual, whichever you prefer — and the billing arrangement never affects the documentation you receive or the confidentiality of session content.
What does HR actually receive during the program?
With the employee's signed authorization: same-day enrollment confirmation, progress reports weekly or biweekly, graded assessment results, and on completion both the certificate and the attorney-signed letter detailing sessions, curriculum, and engagement.
How fast can the employee start after the incident?
Same-day enrollment is standard and first sessions are typically scheduled within 48–72 hours — the referral-to-enrollment timeline is itself part of the record that shows the organization responded promptly.
Is this the same as anger management for court?
Same organization and rigor, different track: the workplace program (our Professional Workplace Conduct Certification) centers on conduct, boundaries, and escalation prevention in the employment context, with employer-facing documentation. If a matter also involves court, both needs can be served.