Competitive Employment Freedom Invoked for Engineer A Joining Company Y
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/106#Competitive_Employment_Freedom_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Joining_Company_Y
Properties
Instance of
AbsoluteLoyaltyProhibitiontoFormerClients
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AbsoluteLoyaltyProhibitiontoFormerClients
Applied to
Company X Confidential Design Information Submitting Company
Company Y Competitor-Employing Private Engineering Company
Balancing with
Post-Public-Employment Confidential Information Non-Use Prohibition
Regulatory Submission Confidentiality Protection Obligation
Concrete expression
Engineer A retains the professional right to accept employment with Company Y, a direct competitor of Company X, without this constituting an ethical violation — the prior relationship with Company X through the government agency does not create a perpetual bar to competitive employment
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Interpretation
The engineer's professional autonomy and right to pursue career opportunities is preserved even in competitive contexts, subject to the constraint that confidential information from the prior relationship is not disclosed or used
Invoked by
Engineer A Confidentiality-Bound Government Agency Engineer
Tension resolution
The Board explicitly states Engineer A should not be 'unduly limited or penalized' for accepting competitive employment, resolving the tension in favor of professional mobility subject to the confidentiality constraint
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A should not be unduly limited or penalized for accepting a position with Company Y, a competitor of Company X
Text references
Engineer A should not be unduly limited or penalized for accepting a position with Company Y, a competitor of Company X
TTL
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case106:Competitive_Employment_Freedom_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Joining_Company_Y a proeth:AbsoluteLoyaltyProhibitiontoFormerClients,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Competitive Employment Freedom Invoked for Engineer A Joining Company Y" ;
proeth:appliedto "Company X Confidential Design Information Submitting Company",
"Company Y Competitor-Employing Private Engineering Company" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Post-Public-Employment Confidential Information Non-Use Prohibition",
"Regulatory Submission Confidentiality Protection Obligation" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A retains the professional right to accept employment with Company Y, a direct competitor of Company X, without this constituting an ethical violation — the prior relationship with Company X through the government agency does not create a perpetual bar to competitive employment" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "106" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T00:47:28.276757+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "106" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T00:47:28.276757+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The engineer's professional autonomy and right to pursue career opportunities is preserved even in competitive contexts, subject to the constraint that confidential information from the prior relationship is not disclosed or used" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Confidentiality-Bound Government Agency Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A should not be unduly limited or penalized for accepting a position with Company Y, a competitor of Company X" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The Board explicitly states Engineer A should not be 'unduly limited or penalized' for accepting competitive employment, resolving the tension in favor of professional mobility subject to the confidentiality constraint" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A should not be unduly limited or penalized for accepting a position with Company Y, a competitor of Company X" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 106 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T00:58:47.918241"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 106 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
106
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T00:47:28.276757+00:00
First case
106
Generated
2026-02-28T00:47:28.276757+00:00
Attributed to
Case 106 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T00:58:47.918241
Generated by
ProEthica Case 106 Extraction