Engineer B Supervisor Employer-Protective Intent Non-Excuse Code Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/82#Engineer_B_Supervisor_Employer-Protective_Intent_Non-Excuse_Code_Violation
Properties
Instance of
SupervisorEmployer-ProtectiveIntentNon-ExcuseforPublicWelfareCodeSubordinationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SupervisorEmployer-ProtectiveIntentNon-ExcuseforPublicWelfareCodeSubordinationObligation
Case context
Engineer B warned Engineer A that continued Citizens Committee public advocacy activities would result in discharge, citing XYZ Manufacturing's commercial and reputational interests.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer B (engineering supervisor at XYZ Manufacturing)
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to refrain from threatening Engineer A with discharge for continuing Citizens Committee activities, and his intent to act in the employer's best interests did not excuse his personal violation of the ethics code's public welfare provisions.
Temporal scope
At the time Engineer B issued the discharge threat
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Supervis or Ethics Code Binding Non-Exemption Invoked Against Engineer B
Source Evidence
Source text
The same principles and Code provisions are binding on the engineering supervisor who threatened Engineer A with the possible discharge if he continued his activities on behalf of the Citizens Committee.
Text references
By so doing, Engineer B may have intended to act in the interests of the employer of both, but at the same time he was subordinating the public welfare requirements of the Code.
Engineer B, even though intending to act in the best interests of his employer, is in conflict with the cited sections of the Code because by his threat he intends to preclude other engineers from carrying out what they believe to be motives consonant with the Code.
The same principles and Code provisions are binding on the engineering supervisor who threatened Engineer A with the possible discharge if he continued his activities on behalf of the Citizens Committee.
TTL
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case82:Engineer_B_Supervisor_Employer-Protective_Intent_Non-Excuse_Code_Violation a proeth:SupervisorEmployer-ProtectiveIntentNon-ExcuseforPublicWelfareCodeSubordinationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Supervisor Employer-Protective Intent Non-Excuse Code Violation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case82:Engineer_B_Ethics_Code_Binding_Supervisor_Non-Exemption_Public_Welfare_Provisions ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/82#Engineer_B_—_Supervisor_Code_Violation_by_Threatening_Subordinates_Civic_Advocacy> ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer B warned Engineer A that continued Citizens Committee public advocacy activities would result in discharge, citing XYZ Manufacturing's commercial and reputational interests." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case82:Supervisor_Ethics_Code_Binding_Non-Exemption_Invoked_Against_Engineer_B ;
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 B (engineering supervisor at XYZ Manufacturing)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Supervisor Employer-Protective Intent Non-Excuse for Public Welfare Code Subordination Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer B was obligated to refrain from threatening Engineer A with discharge for continuing Citizens Committee activities, and his intent to act in the employer's best interests did not excuse his personal violation of the ethics code's public welfare provisions." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The same principles and Code provisions are binding on the engineering supervisor who threatened Engineer A with the possible discharge if he continued his activities on behalf of the Citizens Committee." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time Engineer B issued the discharge threat" ;
proeth:textreferences "By so doing, Engineer B may have intended to act in the interests of the employer of both, but at the same time he was subordinating the public welfare requirements of the Code.",
"Engineer B, even though intending to act in the best interests of his employer, is in conflict with the cited sections of the Code because by his threat he intends to preclude other engineers from carrying out what they believe to be motives consonant with the Code.",
"The same principles and Code provisions are binding on the engineering supervisor who threatened Engineer A with the possible discharge if he continued his activities on behalf of the Citizens Committee." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 82 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T13:59:43.313861"^^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
2026-03-02T13:59:43.313861
Generated by
ProEthica Case 82 Extraction