Writing a paper prior to being allowed to return back to work is atypical of what one would expect from their employer. The job coach not only should not have been the person to reprimand the worker, but certainly he should not have treated her like a student, or someone that was not an equal peer in the workplace. Not only that, but now he has taken the employer out of the equation. We want more companies to hire people with disabilities and to know how to respond to them in these situations. I am sure she was not the first employee with an attitude the employer has ever dealt with and likely had more experience handling the situation than the job coach. This would have been an opportunity for them to work together and for the job coach to give strategies on how to deal with this individual if he needed it. Going over the employee rules with the worker would be more beneficial. Discussing why she is late and addressing those reasons and coming up with a solution for that problem would be much more appropriate than a paper.

In my opinion the job coach should have let the employer determine the consequence of the employee being late. The job coach telling the employee to write a paper is treating her like a child and thats the last thing a teenager wants to be treated like. The boundries of the job coach was defintly over stepped. I would have took the employee to the employer and let them take care of it just like they would any other person without a job coach.