Engineer A Extra-Employment Civic Advocacy Freedom Citizens Committee
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/82#Engineer_A_Extra-Employment_Civic_Advocacy_Freedom_Citizens_Committee
Properties
Instance of
EngineerExtra-EmploymentCivicAdvocacyEmployerNon-InterferenceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EngineerExtra-EmploymentCivicAdvocacyEmployerNon-InterferenceObligation
Case context
Engineer A organized and led the Citizens Committee for Quality Products while employed at XYZ Manufacturing; Engineer B threatened discharge if Engineer A continued these activities.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
XYZ Manufacturing / Engineer B (as employer and supervisor)
Obligation statement
XYZ Manufacturing and Engineer B were obligated to recognize that Engineer A retained the right to engage in extra-employment civic advocacy through the Citizens Committee — including organizing, making public statements, writing to newspapers, and testifying before legislative bodies — without employer interference or threatened discharge, as Engineer A had not disclosed confidential employer information and had not violated any professional duty.
Temporal scope
Throughout Engineer A's Citizens Committee activities
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Engineer Extra-Employment Civic Advocacy Freedom Invoked for Citizens Committee
Source Evidence
Source text
What was being done, assuming good faith, was in full accord with the mandate of Section 2(b) of the Code.
Text references
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.
What was being done, assuming good faith, was in full accord with the mandate of Section 2(b) of the Code.
TTL
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case82:Engineer_A_Extra-Employment_Civic_Advocacy_Freedom_Citizens_Committee a proeth:EngineerExtra-EmploymentCivicAdvocacyEmployerNon-InterferenceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Extra-Employment Civic Advocacy Freedom Citizens Committee" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case82:Engineer_B_Employer_Embarrassment_Discharge_Threat_Non-Justification ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case82:Engineer_B_Employer_Embarrassment_Discharge_Threat_Non-Justification ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A organized and led the Citizens Committee for Quality Products while employed at XYZ Manufacturing; Engineer B threatened discharge if Engineer A continued these activities." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case82:Engineer_Extra-Employment_Civic_Advocacy_Freedom_Invoked_for_Citizens_Committee ;
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 "XYZ Manufacturing / Engineer B (as employer and supervisor)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Engineer Extra-Employment Civic Advocacy Employer Non-Interference Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "XYZ Manufacturing and Engineer B were obligated to recognize that Engineer A retained the right to engage in extra-employment civic advocacy through the Citizens Committee — including organizing, making public statements, writing to newspapers, and testifying before legislative bodies — without employer interference or threatened discharge, as Engineer A had not disclosed confidential employer information and had not violated any professional duty." ;
proeth:sourcetext "What was being done, assuming good faith, was in full accord with the mandate of Section 2(b) of the Code." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout Engineer A's Citizens Committee activities" ;
proeth:textreferences "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.",
"What was being done, assuming good faith, was in full accord with the mandate of Section 2(b) of the Code." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 82 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T13:59:43.306919"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 82 Extraction" .
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
2026-03-02T13:59:43.306919
Generated by
ProEthica Case 82 Extraction