An engineer designs a bridge in a rural community and is paid by the contracting
ID: 1866379 • Letter: A
Question
An engineer designs a bridge in a rural community and is paid by the contracting firm that is to build the bridge for the project, as well as by the town council of the community. The engineer's actions are 12 O (A) ethical as long as the contracting firm and town council know about the double payment and approve of the arrangement O (B) unethical O (C) ethical as long as the total of the compensation received from the two parties does not exceed rates normally charged for such a project O (D) unethical and illegalExplanation / Answer
Option D is correct
the engineers action are unethical and illegal.
first thing to consider is that, we need to know which of the two i.e contracting firm or town council had assigned the job to the engineer. we need to find for whom the engineer works as he cant work for both at a time. if he is working for contracting firm, town council has nothing to do with his job and vice versa.
now considering first option, employee can be paid only via the employer. it is illegal for a person to work for both the town council and contracting firm simultaneously.
considering option c: if he is the employee of contracting firm, as per law and procedure the whole amount of project is paid to the firm. then only the employer will pay its employee engineer of the designing he did. hence there can not be two employer at once.
it is illegal because taking compensation from both firms is not allowable by law and unethical because this is a malpractice or corruption.