Disability Non-Disclosure Employment State
Class
55070c93
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#DisabilityNon-DisclosureEmploymentState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer has a diagnosed disability or medical condition that has never been disclosed to current or prior employers, where the professional obtained and maintained employment without disclosure, and is now weighing whether continued non-disclosure constitutes a deceptive act under professional codes of ethics, against the personal risk that disclosure could trigger employer bias, limit career options, or jeopardize existing employment.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which a professional engineer has a diagnosed disability or medical condition that has never been disclosed to current or prior employers, where the professional obtained and maintained employment without disclosure, and is now weighing whether continued non-disclosure constitutes a deceptive act under professional codes of ethics, against the personal risk that disclosure could trigger employer bias, limit career options, or jeopardize existing employment.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] State in which a professional's recognized right to personal privacy and non-disclosure of potentially damaging information — such as medical conditions, pending complaints, or prior failures — is in active tension with the professional's ethical duty to be objective and truthful and to avoid omitting material facts from professional representations, requiring a case-by-case weighing of whether the undisclosed information rises to the level of a material fact whose omission constitutes deception.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A has kept this fact not only from his current employer (which he has worked for 5 years) but also previous employers
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
55070c931fb97d51...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
146
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T07:38:08.947771+00:00
First Discovered In Case
146
Generated
2026-02-27T07:38:08.947771+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 146 Extraction