Employees got in a fight. I do nothing...right?

michelinas
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:13:13 +0000

Employee #2 could easily sue you for not maintaining a safe workplace; you allowed someone in who was not working there, did not supervise him, and as a result he got assaulted.



Could he…? What if someone else (an entirely random person) walked in and started a fight with one of my employees…? What if, hypothetically, some seemingly normal customer striked me in the face while I was working at, I don’t know, Walmart? Would Walmart be responsible for creating an “unsafe” environment?



What does your employee handbook or employee manual say about fighting?



Weirdly enough, there’s nothing about this. It’s a small, locally owned store…the “handbook” is not very exhaustive at all…



Give Roommate #2 a break–his roommate is a deadbeat and will stiff him for rent; his roommate physically assaulted him–and now you’re thinking of firing HIM? Go ahead and make it the worst day of his sorry young life…



I don’t want to have to fire him…but as uc dad and notrighenough have pointed out, I don’t know roommate #1’s side of the story… and I don’t want to probe any further because then I would be getting myself involved.

*After I posted my original post, the police came and asked us about the incident. We gave the police what info. we had on file…I’m guessing roommate #2 called the police after he left with his dad.