Engineer A Faithful Agent Notice-Period Boundary
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Notice-Period_Boundary
Properties
Instance of
Employer-InitiatedTerminationNotice-PeriodFaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Employer-InitiatedTerminationNotice-PeriodFaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation
Case context
Engineer A continued to work for Engineer B for several months after the November 1982 termination notice while simultaneously soliciting Engineer B's clients for his new firm.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.8
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to maintain faithful agent conduct toward Engineer B during the notice period — continuing to perform assigned duties, refraining from using employer resources for his new firm, and conducting client solicitation honestly and without disparagement — while recognizing that the employer-initiated termination released him from the stronger loyalty constraint applicable to voluntarily departing engineers.
Temporal scope
November 15, 1982 through actual termination date
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer A Employer-Initiated Termination Pre-Departure Client Solicitation Permissibility
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A Covert Current-Client Solicitation While Employed
derivedFromPrinciple
Faithful Agent Trustee Duty Invoked Against Engineer A Current Client Solicitation
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A continued to work for Engineer B for several additional months after the November termination notice.
Text references
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.
TTL
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case171:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Notice-Period_Boundary a proeth:Employer-InitiatedTerminationNotice-PeriodFaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Faithful Agent Notice-Period Boundary" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case171:Engineer_A_Employer-Initiated_Termination_Pre-Departure_Client_Solicitation_Permissibility ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case171:Engineer_A_Covert_Current-Client_Solicitation_While_Employed ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A continued to work for Engineer B for several months after the November 1982 termination notice while simultaneously soliciting Engineer B's clients for his new firm." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.8" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case171:Faithful_Agent_Trustee_Duty_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Current_Client_Solicitation ;
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 "medium" ;
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 — continuing to perform assigned duties, refraining from using employer resources for his new firm, and conducting client solicitation honestly and without disparagement — while recognizing that the employer-initiated termination released him from the stronger loyalty constraint applicable to voluntarily departing engineers." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A continued to work for Engineer B for several additional months after the November termination notice." ;
proeth:temporalscope "November 15, 1982 through actual termination date" ;
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." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 171 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:51:15.275169"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 171 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
171
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:31:39.785898+00:00
First case
171
Generated
2026-03-02T14:31:39.785898+00:00
Attributed to
Case 171 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:51:15.275169
Generated by
ProEthica Case 171 Extraction