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Duty Of The Sheriff: Deontological Ethics

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Hi Professor Feldman, In deontological ethics, I believed that the Sheriff was not acting ethical. The duty of the Sheriff and employers is to ensure that their employees are treated fairly based on the employment laws, the professional codes of conduct and moral values. The Sheriff took advantage of the employees by not providing the 5% raise. Based on virtue ethics, I think the Sheriff and lieutenant is failing since he or she is not doing anything to ensure that the employee is treated fairly. Instead, of the sheriff addressing how to fix the issue, he is only concern with giving only 2 percent raised. The lieutenant knows that it is wrong to deny the troop their full pay raised. Therefore, he should look for solutions to resolve the problem.
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