Citizens Committee Engineers Employment Jeopardy Acceptance Civic Advocacy
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/82#Citizens_Committee_Engineers_Employment_Jeopardy_Acceptance_Civic_Advocacy
Properties
Instance of
ProductWelfareAdvocacyEmploymentLossAcceptanceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProductWelfareAdvocacyEmploymentLossAcceptanceObligation
Case context
The ethics board explicitly acknowledged that Citizens Committee engineers may place their employment positions in jeopardy by going counter to the apparent interests of their employers, and that the code would not rescue them from punitive employer action.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A and Citizens Committee engineer members
Obligation statement
Engineer A and Citizens Committee colleagues were obligated to recognize and accept that their civic advocacy activities — while ethically permissible and consonant with the code — could place their employment positions in jeopardy, and that the ethics code could not rescue them from employer retaliation because the code applies only to individual engineers and not to companies.
Temporal scope
Throughout the Citizens Committee advocacy activities and upon deciding to continue them
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
This we believe they are entitled to do under the Code, recognizing that they may place their own position in jeopardy by going counter to the apparent interests of their employers.
Text references
If punitive action is taken by one or more employers of the engineers engaged in this activity, the Code will not rescue them because the Code applies only to individual engineers and not to companies.
This we believe they are entitled to do under the Code, recognizing that they may place their own position in jeopardy by going counter to the apparent interests of their employers.
TTL
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case82:Citizens_Committee_Engineers_Employment_Jeopardy_Acceptance_Civic_Advocacy a proeth:ProductWelfareAdvocacyEmploymentLossAcceptanceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Citizens Committee Engineers Employment Jeopardy Acceptance Civic Advocacy" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case82:Citizens_Committee_Engineers_Public_Welfare_Civic_Advocacy_Permissibility ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/82#Engineer_A_—_Employment_Jeopardy_from_Civic_Advocacy_Continuation> ;
proeth:casecontext "The ethics board explicitly acknowledged that Citizens Committee engineers may place their employment positions in jeopardy by going counter to the apparent interests of their employers, and that the code would not rescue them from punitive employer action." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case82:Employment_Loss_Acceptance_Invoked_for_Citizens_Committee_Engineers,
case82:Employment_Loss_Acceptance_as_Cost_of_Public_Welfare_Advocacy_Invoked_for_Engineer_A ;
proeth:discoveredincase "82" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T13:51:00.705314+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "82" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T13:51:00.705314+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A and Citizens Committee engineer members" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Product Welfare Advocacy Employment Loss Acceptance Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A and Citizens Committee colleagues were obligated to recognize and accept that their civic advocacy activities — while ethically permissible and consonant with the code — could place their employment positions in jeopardy, and that the ethics code could not rescue them from employer retaliation because the code applies only to individual engineers and not to companies." ;
proeth:sourcetext "This we believe they are entitled to do under the Code, recognizing that they may place their own position in jeopardy by going counter to the apparent interests of their employers." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the Citizens Committee advocacy activities and upon deciding to continue them" ;
proeth:textreferences "If punitive action is taken by one or more employers of the engineers engaged in this activity, the Code will not rescue them because the Code applies only to individual engineers and not to companies.",
"This we believe they are entitled to do under the Code, recognizing that they may place their own position in jeopardy by going counter to the apparent interests of their employers." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 82 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T13:59:43.307048"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
82
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T13:51:00.705314+00:00
First case
82
Generated
2026-03-02T13:51:00.705314+00:00
Attributed to
Case 82 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T13:59:43.307048
Generated by
ProEthica Case 82 Extraction