Honesty in Professional Representations Invoked by Engineer F Employment Application
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Invoked_by_Engineer_F_Employment_Application
Properties
Instance of
HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations
Applied to
Engineering firm employment application
Balancing with
Cross-License Disciplinary History Disclosure Scope Principle
Personal Privacy Right in Professional Self-Disclosure
Concrete expression
Engineer F's negative answer on the employment application, while literally accurate as to PE license discipline, raises the question of whether it constituted an honest and accurate representation of his professional disciplinary history in the broader sense required by professional honesty obligations
Confidence
0.85
Importance
high
Interpretation
Professional honesty in employment representations requires not only literal accuracy but also that the overall picture presented to the employer is not materially incomplete or misleading; the contractor license revocation for enabling unlicensed practice is a fact that bears directly on professional character
Invoked by
Engineer F Contractor License Revocation Omitting Engineer
Tension resolution
The honesty obligation supports disclosure of the contractor license revocation as a matter of professional character, even if the question's literal scope did not require it
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer F responds in the negative on the employment application.
Text references
Engineer F responds in the negative on the employment application.
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:Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Invoked_by_Engineer_F_Employment_Application a proeth:HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Honesty in Professional Representations Invoked by Engineer F Employment Application" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineering firm employment application" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Cross-License Disciplinary History Disclosure Scope Principle",
"Personal Privacy Right in Professional Self-Disclosure" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer F's negative answer on the employment application, while literally accurate as to PE license discipline, raises the question of whether it constituted an honest and accurate representation of his professional disciplinary history in the broader sense required by professional honesty obligations" ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
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 "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Professional honesty in employment representations requires not only literal accuracy but also that the overall picture presented to the employer is not materially incomplete or misleading; the contractor license revocation for enabling unlicensed practice is a fact that bears directly on professional character" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer F Contractor License Revocation Omitting Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Honesty in Professional Representations" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer F responds in the negative on the employment application." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The honesty obligation supports disclosure of the contractor license revocation as a matter of professional character, even if the question's literal scope did not require it" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer F responds in the negative on the employment application.",
"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 "2026-02-28T23:11:08.572253"^^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
2026-02-28T23:11:08.572253
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction