Engineering Firm Hiring Authority Broad Disciplinary Inquiry Due Diligence
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Engineering_Firm_Hiring_Authority_Broad_Disciplinary_Inquiry_Due_Diligence
Properties
Instance of
HiringFirmBroad-ScopeDisciplinaryInquiryDueDiligenceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#HiringFirmBroad-ScopeDisciplinaryInquiryDueDiligenceObligation
Case context
The engineering firm's application question was limited to discipline 'in the practice of professional engineering' and PE license actions, which failed to elicit information about Engineer F's contractor's license revocation — a material fact about his professional character.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.78
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineering Firm (Hiring Authority)
Obligation statement
The engineering firm was obligated to draft its employment application disciplinary history question with sufficient breadth to capture all professional license actions — including contractor licenses — relevant to assessing a candidate's professional character, rather than limiting the inquiry to engineering license discipline alone.
Temporal scope
At the time of designing and administering the employment application
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
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learns that while Engineer F's engineering license was never revoked or suspended, Engineer F's contractor's license was revoked.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:Engineering_Firm_Hiring_Authority_Broad_Disciplinary_Inquiry_Due_Diligence a proeth:HiringFirmBroad-ScopeDisciplinaryInquiryDueDiligenceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineering Firm Hiring Authority Broad Disciplinary Inquiry Due Diligence" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case148:Engineer_F_Contractor_License_Revocation_Non-Disclosure_Employment_Application ;
proeth:casecontext "The engineering firm's application question was limited to discipline 'in the practice of professional engineering' and PE license actions, which failed to elicit information about Engineer F's contractor's license revocation — a material fact about his professional character." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.78" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case148:Employer_Hiring_Due_Diligence_Invoked_by_Engineering_Firm,
case148:Employment_Application_Question_Scope_Fidelity_Invoked_by_Hiring_Firm ;
proeth:discoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T22:55:36.193353+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T22:55:36.193353+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineering Firm (Hiring Authority)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Hiring Firm Broad-Scope Disciplinary Inquiry Due Diligence Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The engineering firm was obligated to draft its employment application disciplinary history question with sufficient breadth to capture all professional license actions — including contractor licenses — relevant to assessing a candidate's professional character, rather than limiting the inquiry to engineering license discipline alone." ;
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:temporalscope "At the time of designing and administering the employment application" ;
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 "2026-02-28T23:11:08.573906"^^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
2026-02-28T22:55:36.193353+00:00
First case
148
Generated
2026-02-28T22:55:36.193353+00:00
Attributed to
Case 148 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:11:08.573906
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction