PHIL 1273 1st Edition Lecture 21 Outline of Last Lecture I. Employers and EmployeesA. OverviewB. Comparable WorthC. Affirmative ActionOutline of Current Lecture I. Employers and Employees (continued)A. Financial Employment RelationshipB. Moral Employment RelationshipC. WhistleblowingCurrent LectureI. What is “owed” in an employment relationship?A. Simple case1. Employer owes employee pay for work2. Employee owe employer fulfillment of job assignment3. Not vague: that’s the deal (terms of agreement)B. What is “owed” morally in an employment relationship?1. More complicated casesa. Affirmative Action about more than just “the deal”—treating employees morally, through respecting them as persons, where race and gender may interfereb. Consider what employees owe morallyi. Loyalty?ii. Moral questions and “whistleblowing”C. Whistleblowing1. Employee calls attention to action of employer in attempt to end it2. Boka. Typically this is hard to do: people do not want to risk magnifying themselves under negative termsb. Need to distinguish between times it is right and times it is notc. Start with easy cases (“last resort for alerting the public to an impending disaster” (Bok 414)), then look at harder ones where it might not be the right choiced. Case A – construction inspector (Bok 414)These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.i. What do you think is the right thing?ii. Why—what kind of moral reasoning?e. Case C – assistant director of admissions (Bok 414-415)i. What do you think is the right thing?ii. Why—what kind or moral reasoning?f. Comparison of cases: the second is more challengingg. Encouraging nuanced moral judgment, which might recommend against whistleblowingh. Considered factorsi. “Dissent”- What kind of moral consideration is this?- “Dissent by whistleblowers, first of all, is expressly claimed to be intended to benefit the public. It carries with it, as a result, an obligation to consider the nature of this benefit and to consider also the possible harm that may come from speaking out: harm to persons or institutions and, ultimately, to the public interest itself. Whistleblowers must, therefore, begin by making every effort to consider the effects of speaking out versus those of remaining silent.” (Bok 415)- Utilitarian perspectiveii. “Accusation”- What kind of moral consideration is this?- “The third element in whistleblowing—accusation—raises equally serious ethical concerns. They are concerns of fairness to the persons accused of impropriety. Is the message one to which the public is entitled in the first place? Or does it infringe on personal and private matters that one has no right to invade?” (Bok 415)- Deontological perspectiveiii. “Loyalty”- What kind of moral consideration is
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