Whistleblower Employment Jeopardy State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#WhistleblowerEmploymentJeopardyState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer who believes an employer's course of conduct is improper on public-interest grounds faces a personal conscience decision about whether to escalate or publicly disclose — with the recognized consequence that doing so may result in loss of employment — such that the ethical duty or right to act becomes a matter of personal conscience rather than a mandatory professional obligation, absent a direct danger to public health or safety.
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Definition
State in which a professional engineer who believes an employer's course of conduct is improper on public-interest grounds faces a personal conscience decision about whether to escalate or publicly disclose — with the recognized consequence that doing so may result in loss of employment — such that the ethical duty or right to act becomes a matter of personal conscience rather than a mandatory professional obligation, absent a direct danger to public health or safety.
Source Evidence
Source Text
if an engineer feels strongly that an employer's course of conduct is improper when related to public concerns, and if the engineer feels compelled to blow the whistle to expose facts as he sees them, he may well have to pay the price of loss of employment
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rdfs:comment "State in which a professional engineer who believes an employer's course of conduct is improper on public-interest grounds faces a personal conscience decision about whether to escalate or publicly disclose — with the recognized consequence that doing so may result in loss of employment — such that the ethical duty or right to act becomes a matter of personal conscience rather than a mandatory professional obligation, absent a direct danger to public health or safety." ;
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Content Hash
1d32eab8af3a7d11...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
85
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T04:14:36.238871+00:00
First Discovered In Case
85
Generated
2026-03-01T04:14:36.238871+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 85 Extraction