Faithful Agent Notification Obligation Invoked By Engineer Intern A Post-Hire
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/130#Faithful_Agent_Notification_Obligation_Invoked_By_Engineer_Intern_A_Post-Hire
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentNotificationObligationforProjectSuccessRisk
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentNotificationObligationforProjectSuccessRisk
Applied to
XYZ Consultants employment relationship and project staffing plans dependent on Engineer Intern A's PE licensure
Balancing with
Pre-Employment Qualification Disclosure Obligation
Concrete expression
As an employee of XYZ Consultants, Engineer Intern A bore a faithful agent obligation to advise his employer of the risk that the PE licensure condition of his employment could not be met within the stated 90-day timeline — a risk that materialized when his third exam attempt failed and the licensing board imposed additional requirements
Confidence
0.83
Importance
high
Interpretation
The faithful agent relationship between an employee and employer requires the employee to keep the employer informed of material risks to the conditions under which the employment was established; Engineer Intern A's disclosure of the third failure and the licensing board's additional requirements fulfilled this obligation at the post-hire stage
Invoked by
Engineer Intern A PE Exam Disclosure Engineer Intern
Tension resolution
The faithful agent notification obligation was ultimately fulfilled through the post-hire disclosure, but the principle also supports the argument that the obligation arose earlier — at the pre-employment stage — when Engineer Intern A knew he was about to sit for a third attempt on an exam he had already failed twice
Source Evidence
Source text
XYZ Consultants offered the position to Engineer Intern A with the expectation that Engineer Intern A was on the track to obtain a PE license.
Text references
A month after starting work, Engineer Intern A indicated to his supervisor that the PE exam results had been released and that his third attempt to pass the PE exam had been unsuccessful.
Engineer Intern A also explained that the State X licensing board required additional experience and new references following a third failure before sitting for the exam again.
XYZ Consultants offered the position to Engineer Intern A with the expectation that Engineer Intern A was on the track to obtain a PE license.
TTL
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case130:Faithful_Agent_Notification_Obligation_Invoked_By_Engineer_Intern_A_Post-Hire a proeth:FaithfulAgentNotificationObligationforProjectSuccessRisk,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Faithful Agent Notification Obligation Invoked By Engineer Intern A Post-Hire" ;
proeth:appliedto "XYZ Consultants employment relationship and project staffing plans dependent on Engineer Intern A's PE licensure" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Pre-Employment Qualification Disclosure Obligation" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "As an employee of XYZ Consultants, Engineer Intern A bore a faithful agent obligation to advise his employer of the risk that the PE licensure condition of his employment could not be met within the stated 90-day timeline — a risk that materialized when his third exam attempt failed and the licensing board imposed additional requirements" ;
proeth:confidence "0.83" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "130" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-26T09:27:41.529690+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "130" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-26T09:27:41.529690+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The faithful agent relationship between an employee and employer requires the employee to keep the employer informed of material risks to the conditions under which the employment was established; Engineer Intern A's disclosure of the third failure and the licensing board's additional requirements fulfilled this obligation at the post-hire stage" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer Intern A PE Exam Disclosure Engineer Intern" ;
proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Notification Obligation for Project Success Risk" ;
proeth:sourcetext "XYZ Consultants offered the position to Engineer Intern A with the expectation that Engineer Intern A was on the track to obtain a PE license." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The faithful agent notification obligation was ultimately fulfilled through the post-hire disclosure, but the principle also supports the argument that the obligation arose earlier — at the pre-employment stage — when Engineer Intern A knew he was about to sit for a third attempt on an exam he had already failed twice" ;
proeth:textreferences "A month after starting work, Engineer Intern A indicated to his supervisor that the PE exam results had been released and that his third attempt to pass the PE exam had been unsuccessful.",
"Engineer Intern A also explained that the State X licensing board required additional experience and new references following a third failure before sitting for the exam again.",
"XYZ Consultants offered the position to Engineer Intern A with the expectation that Engineer Intern A was on the track to obtain a PE license." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 130 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-26T09:45:01.026646"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 130 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
130
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-26T09:27:41.529690+00:00
First case
130
Generated
2026-02-26T09:27:41.529690+00:00
Attributed to
Case 130 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-26T09:45:01.026646
Generated by
ProEthica Case 130 Extraction