Employment Application Question Scope Fidelity Invoked by Hiring Firm
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Employment_Application_Question_Scope_Fidelity_Invoked_by_Hiring_Firm
Properties
Instance of
EmploymentApplicationQuestionScopeFidelityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EmploymentApplicationQuestionScopeFidelityObligation
Applied to
Engineering firm employment application disciplinary history question
Balancing with
Honesty
Pre-Employment Qualification Disclosure Obligation
Concrete expression
The engineering firm's employment application question was limited to 'professional engineering' discipline and PE license actions, which was insufficiently broad to capture Engineer F's contractor license revocation — a disciplinary action directly relevant to professional character and integrity
Confidence
0.78
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The firm's question scope defined the outer boundary of Engineer F's literal disclosure obligation; had the question asked about 'any professional or contractor license' discipline, Engineer F would have had a clear literal obligation to disclose the contractor license revocation
Invoked by
Engineering Firm Hiring Authority
Tension resolution
The firm bears responsibility for the incompleteness of its own inquiry; future employment applications should be drafted to capture all relevant license types, not only PE licenses
Source Evidence
Source text
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?'
Text references
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
@prefix case148: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case148:Employment_Application_Question_Scope_Fidelity_Invoked_by_Hiring_Firm a proeth:EmploymentApplicationQuestionScopeFidelityObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Employment Application Question Scope Fidelity Invoked by Hiring Firm" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineering firm employment application disciplinary history question" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Honesty",
"Pre-Employment Qualification Disclosure Obligation" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The engineering firm's employment application question was limited to 'professional engineering' discipline and PE license actions, which was insufficiently broad to capture Engineer F's contractor license revocation — a disciplinary action directly relevant to professional character and integrity" ;
proeth:confidence "0.78" ;
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 question scope defined the outer boundary of Engineer F's literal disclosure obligation; had the question asked about 'any professional or contractor license' discipline, Engineer F would have had a clear literal obligation to disclose the contractor license revocation" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineering Firm Hiring Authority" ;
proeth:principleclass "Employment Application Question Scope Fidelity Obligation" ;
proeth:sourcetext "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:tensionresolution "The firm bears responsibility for the incompleteness of its own inquiry; future employment applications should be drafted to capture all relevant license types, not only PE licenses" ;
proeth:textreferences "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 "2026-02-28T23:11:08.571762"^^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
2026-02-28T23:11:08.571762
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction