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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2025 | 2 | €500 |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 1 | €13,731 |
| Q2 2026 | 1 | €169,756 |
| Q3 2026 | 1 | €35,000 |
5 cases
12 Aug 2026 40 lorry drivers hired out under sham service contract: 35,000 EUR in fines for haulage firms €35,000
A German haulage operator deployed 40 foreign drivers from two affiliated Lithuanian transport companies under his sole direction; the hiring-out of workers was disguised as a contract for work and services (Werkvertrag), and there was no licence from the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit). Final fines: 20,000 EUR against the Lithuanian managing director and 15,000 EUR against the German hirer (date = publication).
What counts is actual practice: companies that deploy and direct third-party drivers like their own staff are engaged in temporary agency work – regardless of what the contract says.
- Authority / court
- Hauptzollamt Lörrach (Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work
- Legal basis
- Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz (Überlassung ohne Erlaubnis)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Liability of senior managers
- Fines imposed personally on the managing director of the lending company and on the hirer.
- Published
- 12 Aug 2026
- Transportunternehmer im Raum Freiburg entleiht 40 Fahrer ohne Erlaubnis (Hauptzollamt Lörrach) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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22 May 2026 Streamline Shipping Agencies LimitedAberdeen port agency: £146,700 after forklift accident without traffic separation €169,756
At the Port of Aberdeen, an employee loosening a lorry curtain was struck by a reversing forklift truck and suffered multiple fractures and a degloving injury. Pedestrians and vehicles were not separated during simultaneous loading and unloading. Fine of £146,700.
Loading and manoeuvring areas need firm rules on who may be where and when if forklifts and pedestrians are working at the same time.
- Authority / court
- Aberdeen Sheriff Court (Ermittlung: Health and Safety Executive)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Regulation 17(1) Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992; Section 33(1)(c) Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 28 May 2026
Original amount 146,700 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 May 2026.
- Shipping company fined £146,700 after worker seriously injured by forklift truck (HSE) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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22 Jan 2026 Logistics business: fines for minimum wage, reporting and foreign employment violations €13,731
Between June and December 2023, a logistics and transport business withheld a total of around 2,000 EUR in minimum wages from several employees, breached reporting and immediate notification obligations, and in July/August 2023 employed a foreign national without a residence permit. The fines: 5,231 EUR (minimum wage), 750 EUR each (reporting obligations) and 7,000 EUR (unauthorised employment of foreign nationals), totalling 13,731 EUR (date = publication).
Even small wage arrears are penalised individually alongside reporting and residence violations – HR processes for new hires need a fixed checklist.
Immediate notification and checking of work permits when hiring
- Authority / court
- Hauptzollamt Karlsruhe (Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work
- Legal basis
- § 21 Abs. 1 Nr. 11 MiLoG; § 111 Abs. 1 Nr. 2 SGB IV; § 404 Abs. 2 Nr. 3 SGB III
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 22 Jan 2026
- Zoll ahndet Mindestlohn- und Meldepflichtverstöße bei Logistikunternehmen (Hauptzollamt Karlsruhe) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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28 Aug 2025 Taxi operator manipulated shift sheets: suspended sentence, 440,000 EUR loss Custodial sentence
A taxi operator from the district of Karlsruhe, who also ran a café, had taxi drivers fill in shift sheets incompletely, destroyed documents subject to retention requirements and failed to pay over social insurance contributions of more than 440,000 EUR; in addition, he wrongly claimed short-time working allowance (Kurzarbeitergeld). Final: 1 year and 4 months' imprisonment suspended on probation, 120 hours of community service and restitution of the loss (date = publication).
In the taxi and transport sector, incomplete working time records are the first point of attack for the FKS (Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit, the customs unit combating illicit employment) – time recording must be complete and tamper-proof.
- Authority / court
- Amtsgericht Karlsruhe (Ermittlung: Hauptzollamt Karlsruhe, FKS)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work
- Legal basis
- § 266a StGB (126 Fälle)
- Action
- Custodial sentence
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- Sentence suspended on probation.
- Liability of senior managers
- Operator convicted personally.
- Published
- 28 Aug 2025
- Verschleierte Arbeitszeiten und vernichtete Belege (Hauptzollamt Karlsruhe) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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22 Jul 2025 Hungarian haulier: lorry driver underpaid during posting – 500 EUR final €500
A Hungarian lorry driver of a freight transport company based in Hungary (not named in the decision) received only 137.94 EUR instead of the 319.55 EUR required under the collective agreement for a posting to Austria in March 2020. The Weiz district authority (Bezirkshauptmannschaft Weiz) imposed 500 EUR on the managing director, and the Styria Regional Administrative Court (Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark) upheld this; Austria's Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof, VwGH) rejected the appeal on points of law (Ra 2025/11/0049).
Even short cross-border transport operations trigger Austrian minimum pay obligations – haulage companies must account for posting days separately.
- Authority / court
- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Vorinstanzen: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Weiz, Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work
- Legal basis
- § 29 Abs. 1 Lohn- und Sozialdumping-Bekämpfungsgesetz (LSD-BG)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Liability of senior managers
- The fine is directed against the managing director under commercial law.
- VwGH Ra 2025/11/0049 vom 22.07.2025 (RIS) Court decision
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link