Engineer A Employer-Initiated Termination Pre-Departure Client Solicitation Permissibility

@prefix case171: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> . @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#> . case171:Engineer_A_Employer-Initiated_Termination_Pre-Departure_Client_Solicitation_Permissibility a proeth:Employer-InitiatedTerminationNoticePre-DepartureClientSolicitationPermissibilityObligation, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Engineer A Employer-Initiated Termination Pre-Departure Client Solicitation Permissibility" ; proeth-core:competesWith case171:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Duty_During_Notice_Period_BER-82, case171:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Notice-Period_Boundary, case171:Engineer_A_Pre-Departure_Competitive_Solicitation_Employer_Disclosure_BER-82, case171:Engineer_A_Specialized_Knowledge_Employer_Disclosure_Before_Competitive_Use_BER-82 ; proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case171:Engineer_A_Active_Client_Solicitation_During_Continued_Employment, case171:Engineer_A_Covert_Current-Client_Solicitation_While_Employed, case171:Engineer_A_Pending_Termination_Notice_Active_Employment_Continuation, case171:Engineer_A_Specialized_Knowledge_Solicitation_Risk ; proeth:casecontext "Engineer B terminated Engineer A for lack of work; Engineer A immediately notified Engineer B's clients of his new firm and sought future work while continuing to work for Engineer B during the notice period." ; proeth:compliancestatus "met" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ; proeth:confidence "0.87" ; proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case171:At-Will_Employment_Symmetry_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Upon_Termination_Notice ; proeth:discoveredincase "171" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:31:39.785898+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "171" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:31:39.785898+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ; proeth:obligationclass "Employer-Initiated Termination Notice Pre-Departure Client Solicitation Permissibility Obligation" ; proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A, having received an employer-initiated termination notice from Engineer B on November 15, 1982, was obligated to recognize that soliciting Engineer B's clients for future work with his new firm was ethically permissible under the at-will employment symmetry principle, provided no active contracts were supplanted and no specialized confidential knowledge was exploited, and to conduct such solicitation honestly and without disparagement of Engineer B." ; proeth:sourcetext "On November 15, 1982 Engineer B notified Engineer A that Engineer B was going to terminate Engineer A because of lack of work." ; proeth:temporalscope "From receipt of termination notice (November 15, 1982) through actual departure" ; proeth:textreferences "Engineer A continued to work for Engineer B for several additional months after the November termination notice.", "Engineer A thereupon notified clients of Engineer B that Engineer A was planning to start another engineering firm and would appreciate being considered for future work.", "On November 15, 1982 Engineer B notified Engineer A that Engineer B was going to terminate Engineer A because of lack of work." ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 171 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:51:15.274784"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 171 Extraction" .