Engineer A Faithful Agent Duty During Notice Period BER-82
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Duty_During_Notice_Period_BER-82
Properties
Instance of
Employer-InitiatedTerminationNotice-PeriodFaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Employer-InitiatedTerminationNotice-PeriodFaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation
Case context
Engineer A received a termination notice from Engineer B but continued working during the notice period. During this time, Engineer A solicited Engineer B's current clients without disclosure, violating the faithful agent and trustee duty under NSPE Code Section I.4.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to maintain faithful agent conduct toward Engineer B during the notice period, including refraining from covertly diverting Engineer B's current client relationships to his new firm and from using his employment position to advance competitive interests without disclosure.
Temporal scope
From receipt of termination notice through actual departure
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer A Employer-Initiated Termination Pre-Departure Client Solicitation Permissibility
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A No Written Non-Compete Agreement
Source Evidence
Source text
An engineer is expected to act, at all times in professional matters for the employer, as a faithful agent and trustee (Section I.4.).
Text references
An engineer is expected to act, at all times in professional matters for the employer, as a faithful agent and trustee (Section I.4.).
That requires the engineer to recognize both a duty of loyalty and good faith.
it is concluded that Engineer A violated Section I.4. by failing to act as a faithful employee.
TTL
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case171:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Duty_During_Notice_Period_BER-82 a proeth:Employer-InitiatedTerminationNotice-PeriodFaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Faithful Agent Duty During Notice Period BER-82" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case171:Engineer_A_Employer-Initiated_Termination_Pre-Departure_Client_Solicitation_Permissibility ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case171:Engineer_A_No_Written_Non-Compete_Agreement ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case171:Engineer_A_Employer-Initiated_Termination_Pre-Departure_Client_Solicitation_Permissibility ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A received a termination notice from Engineer B but continued working during the notice period. During this time, Engineer A solicited Engineer B's current clients without disclosure, violating the faithful agent and trustee duty under NSPE Code Section I.4." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case171:Faithful_Agent_Trustee_Duty_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Current_Client_Solicitation,
case171:Loyalty_Principle_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Pre-Departure_Conduct ;
proeth:discoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:40:34.949168+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:40:34.949168+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Employer-Initiated Termination Notice-Period Faithful Agent Boundary Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to maintain faithful agent conduct toward Engineer B during the notice period, including refraining from covertly diverting Engineer B's current client relationships to his new firm and from using his employment position to advance competitive interests without disclosure." ;
proeth:sourcetext "An engineer is expected to act, at all times in professional matters for the employer, as a faithful agent and trustee (Section I.4.)." ;
proeth:temporalscope "From receipt of termination notice through actual departure" ;
proeth:textreferences "An engineer is expected to act, at all times in professional matters for the employer, as a faithful agent and trustee (Section I.4.).",
"That requires the engineer to recognize both a duty of loyalty and good faith.",
"it is concluded that Engineer A violated Section I.4. by failing to act as a faithful employee." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 171 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:51:15.291401"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 171 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
171
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:40:34.949168+00:00
First case
171
Generated
2026-03-02T14:40:34.949168+00:00
Attributed to
Case 171 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:51:15.291401
Generated by
ProEthica Case 171 Extraction