| Obviously, workers and employees are not suppose to | | | | if there are fights in the work place, well your company |
| have shoving matches or fist fights at work, although if | | | | is one step away from being sued. So, what is a |
| you have been in human resources for a while, well, | | | | human resource agent to do when something like this |
| you've probably seen just about everything. Assault | | | | occurs or a rumor that something like this has |
| and Battery is a crime, challenging someone to a fight | | | | happened? |
| is a crime and having a fight whether both parties | | | | First an investigation might be the appropriate action |
| agreed or not just cannot be acceptable at work. This | | | | and even if both parties will not admit to it and you |
| is not High School, and fights at work can create a | | | | cannot take action on mere hearsay, still the parties |
| hostile workplace and stress any company's work | | | | suspected of fighting need to be lectured and warned |
| force to the maximum. | | | | that this can never occur again and they need to sign |
| Up until the last decade or so, there were many | | | | a document for their file that they have both be |
| industries where stuff like this went on, but no one | | | | warned and understand the circumstances and the |
| dare bothered to go and make an issue of it with the | | | | potential firing in the future if this ever does occur. This |
| personnel department of the human resource office, | | | | is human resource documentation 101, so please make |
| which probably heard about it sometime later through | | | | a note of it, and duly put it into the file. Thank you. |
| the grape vine. But, those days are gone forever and | | | | |