Engineer A — Employment Jeopardy from Civic Advocacy Continuation
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/82#Engineer_A_—_Employment_Jeopardy_from_Civic_Advocacy_Continuation
Properties
Instance of
WhistleblowerEmploymentJeopardyState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#WhistleblowerEmploymentJeopardyState
Active period
From Engineer B's threat through the ethics board ruling
Affected parties
Engineer A
Engineer B
Shared employer
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Subject
Engineer A's recognition that continuing Citizens Committee activities may result in discharge, with the ethics board affirming this as a personal conscience decision the Code permits but cannot protect against employer retaliation
Terminated by
Ethics board ruling affirming Engineer A's entitlement to continue but acknowledging the Code cannot protect against employer retaliation
Triggering event
Engineer B's threat of discharge if Engineer A continued Citizens Committee activities
Urgency level
high
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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<http://proethica.org/ontology/case/82#Engineer_A_—_Employment_Jeopardy_from_Civic_Advocacy_Continuation> a proeth:WhistleblowerEmploymentJeopardyState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A — Employment Jeopardy from Civic Advocacy Continuation" ;
proeth:activeperiod "From Engineer B's threat through the ethics board ruling" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Engineer A",
"Engineer B",
"Shared employer" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "82" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T13:35:38.472109+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "82" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T13:35:38.472109+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
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:stateclass "Whistleblower Employment Jeopardy State" ;
proeth:subject "Engineer A's recognition that continuing Citizens Committee activities may result in discharge, with the ethics board affirming this as a personal conscience decision the Code permits but cannot protect against employer retaliation" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Ethics board ruling affirming Engineer A's entitlement to continue but acknowledging the Code cannot protect against employer retaliation" ;
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:triggeringevent "Engineer B's threat of discharge if Engineer A continued Citizens Committee activities" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "high" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 82 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T13:59:43.300483"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 82 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
82
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T13:35:38.472109+00:00
First case
82
Generated
2026-03-02T13:35:38.472109+00:00
Attributed to
Case 82 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T13:59:43.300483
Generated by
ProEthica Case 82 Extraction