Employer Hiring Due Diligence Invoked by Engineering Firm
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Employer_Hiring_Due_Diligence_Invoked_by_Engineering_Firm
Properties
Instance of
EmployerHiringDueDiligenceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EmployerHiringDueDiligenceObligation
Applied to
Engineer F's contractor license revocation
Engineering firm employment application
Balancing with
Employment Application Question Scope Fidelity Obligation
Pre-Employment Qualification Disclosure Obligation
Concrete expression
The engineering firm's employment application question was narrowly scoped to PE discipline and PE license actions, failing to ask about contractor licenses or other professional licenses; this narrow framing created an information gap that the firm's own due diligence should have addressed
Confidence
0.8
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The firm's failure to ask a sufficiently broad disciplinary history question — one that would have captured contractor license revocations — diminishes but does not eliminate Engineer F's independent disclosure obligation; however, the firm bears partial responsibility for the information gap created by its narrowly framed question
Invoked by
Engineering Firm Hiring Authority
Tension resolution
The firm's due diligence obligation and the applicant's disclosure obligation are complementary; the firm should have asked more broadly, but Engineer F's honesty obligation is not fully discharged merely because the question was narrowly framed
Source Evidence
Source text
Later, the engineering firm learns that while Engineer F's engineering license was never revoked or suspended, Engineer F's contractor's license was revoked because he allowed an unlicensed individual who was unrelated to his contracting firm to use the contractor license number on another project.
Text references
Later, the engineering firm learns that while Engineer F's engineering license was never revoked or suspended, Engineer F's contractor's license was revoked
On the engineering firm employment application, there is a question asking whether the engineer 'has ever been disciplined in the practice of professional engineering or had his license suspended or revoked?'
TTL
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case148:Employer_Hiring_Due_Diligence_Invoked_by_Engineering_Firm a proeth:EmployerHiringDueDiligenceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Employer Hiring Due Diligence Invoked by Engineering Firm" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer F's contractor license revocation",
"Engineering firm employment application" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Employment Application Question Scope Fidelity Obligation",
"Pre-Employment Qualification Disclosure Obligation" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The engineering firm's employment application question was narrowly scoped to PE discipline and PE license actions, failing to ask about contractor licenses or other professional licenses; this narrow framing created an information gap that the firm's own due diligence should have addressed" ;
proeth:confidence "0.8" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T22:54:16.754277+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T22:54:16.754277+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "The firm's failure to ask a sufficiently broad disciplinary history question — one that would have captured contractor license revocations — diminishes but does not eliminate Engineer F's independent disclosure obligation; however, the firm bears partial responsibility for the information gap created by its narrowly framed question" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineering Firm Hiring Authority" ;
proeth:principleclass "Employer Hiring Due Diligence Obligation" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Later, the engineering firm learns that while Engineer F's engineering license was never revoked or suspended, Engineer F's contractor's license was revoked because he allowed an unlicensed individual who was unrelated to his contracting firm to use the contractor license number on another project." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The firm's due diligence obligation and the applicant's disclosure obligation are complementary; the firm should have asked more broadly, but Engineer F's honesty obligation is not fully discharged merely because the question was narrowly framed" ;
proeth:textreferences "Later, the engineering firm learns that while Engineer F's engineering license was never revoked or suspended, Engineer F's contractor's license was revoked",
"On the engineering firm employment application, there is a question asking whether the engineer 'has ever been disciplined in the practice of professional engineering or had his license suspended or revoked?'" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 148 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T23:11:08.571482"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 148 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
148
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T22:54:16.754277+00:00
First case
148
Generated
2026-02-28T22:54:16.754277+00:00
Attributed to
Case 148 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:11:08.571482
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction