Engineer A Pre-Departure Competitive Solicitation Employer Disclosure BER-82
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#Engineer_A_Pre-Departure_Competitive_Solicitation_Employer_Disclosure_BER-82
Properties
Instance of
Pre-DepartureCompetitiveSolicitationEmployerDisclosureObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Pre-DepartureCompetitiveSolicitationEmployerDisclosureObligation
Case context
Engineer A engaged in competitive solicitation of Engineer B's current clients without informing Engineer B of this activity, constituting a failure of the disclosure component of the faithful agent and trustee duty under NSPE Code Section I.4.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to disclose to Engineer B that he was soliciting Engineer B's current clients for competing professional services while still employed during the notice period.
Temporal scope
During the notice period while still employed by Engineer B
Source Evidence
Source text
An essential aspect of those is the duty to disclose.
Text references
An essential aspect of those is the duty to disclose.
Engineer A owes duties of loyalty, good faith, and disclosure to the employer for which the breach constitutes a violation of the Code.
by failing to act as a faithful employee and by failing to disclose the actions to Engineer B, Engineer A engaged in questionable methods of competition.
TTL
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case171:Engineer_A_Pre-Departure_Competitive_Solicitation_Employer_Disclosure_BER-82 a proeth:Pre-DepartureCompetitiveSolicitationEmployerDisclosureObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Pre-Departure Competitive Solicitation Employer Disclosure BER-82" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case171:Engineer_A_Employer-Initiated_Termination_Pre-Departure_Client_Solicitation_Permissibility ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case171:Engineer_A_Employer-Initiated_Termination_Pre-Departure_Client_Solicitation_Permissibility ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A engaged in competitive solicitation of Engineer B's current clients without informing Engineer B of this activity, constituting a failure of the disclosure component of the faithful agent and trustee duty under NSPE Code Section I.4." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case171:Employer_Disclosure_Duty_in_Competitive_Pre-Departure_Solicitation_Applied_to_Engineer_A,
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 "Pre-Departure Competitive Solicitation Employer Disclosure Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to disclose to Engineer B that he was soliciting Engineer B's current clients for competing professional services while still employed during the notice period." ;
proeth:sourcetext "An essential aspect of those is the duty to disclose." ;
proeth:temporalscope "During the notice period while still employed by Engineer B" ;
proeth:textreferences "An essential aspect of those is the duty to disclose.",
"Engineer A owes duties of loyalty, good faith, and disclosure to the employer for which the breach constitutes a violation of the Code.",
"by failing to act as a faithful employee and by failing to disclose the actions to Engineer B, Engineer A engaged in questionable methods of competition." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 171 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:51:15.290712"^^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
2026-03-02T14:51:15.290712
Generated by
ProEthica Case 171 Extraction