Compliance Radar
Who was sanctioned, and for what?
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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Where?
by authority- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Vorinstanzen: Magistrat der Stadt Wien, Verwaltungsgericht Wien) €15,000 57 % · 1 case
- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Vorinstanzen: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Gmunden, Landesverwaltungsgericht Oberösterreich) €11,000 42 % · 1 case
- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Vorinstanzen: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Weiz, Landesverwaltungsgericht Steiermark) €500 2 % · 1 case
- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (VwGH); Strafbehörde: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Innsbruck — 0 % · 1 case
What for?
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When?
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 | 1 | €500 |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 2 | €11,000 |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 1 | €15,000 |
4 cases
21 Jul 2026 Underpayment of twelve employees: VwGH upholds 15,000 EUR against GmbH head €15,000
The managing director under commercial law of a GmbH (anonymised in the decision as ‘L GmbH’, insolvent in 2025) had underpaid twelve employees by considerable amounts, partly in 2023 and predominantly in 2024. The Vienna municipal authority (Magistrat der Stadt Wien) imposed 38,000 EUR, and the Vienna Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgericht Wien) reduced this to 15,000 EUR; Austria's Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof, VwGH) rejected the appeal on points of law (Ra 2026/11/0064).
In Austria, underpayment is penalised per employee and hits the managing director personally – payroll belongs in compliance monitoring.
- Authority / court
- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Vorinstanzen: Magistrat der Stadt Wien, Verwaltungsgericht Wien)
- 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
- reduced
- Mitigating circumstances
- Reduction of the fine by the Vienna Administrative Court.
- Liability of senior managers
- The fine is directed against the managing director under commercial law.
- VwGH Ra 2026/11/0064 vom 21.07.2026 (RIS) Court decision
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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12 Feb 2026 Polish construction company: underpayment of rebar benders – 11,000 EUR upheld €11,000
The managing director of a Polish construction company with twelve employees (anonymised in the decision as ‘P Sp. z o.o.’), which was working as a subcontractor on a motorway bridge construction site in Upper Austria, had paid five rebar benders below the collectively agreed wage in March 2023. The Gmunden district authority (Bezirkshauptmannschaft Gmunden) imposed 12,500 EUR, and the Upper Austria Regional Administrative Court (Landesverwaltungsgericht Oberösterreich) reduced this to 11,000 EUR; Austria's Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof, VwGH) rejected the appeal on points of law (Ra 2025/11/0196).
When posting workers to Austria, the correct classification of each activity under the collective agreement is decisive – it is subject to full judicial review.
- Authority / court
- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Vorinstanzen: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Gmunden, Landesverwaltungsgericht Oberösterreich)
- 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
- reduced
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Employees
- Under 50
- Mitigating circumstances
- Reduction of the fine by the Regional Administrative Court.
- Liability of senior managers
- The fine is directed against the managing director as the person responsible under administrative criminal law.
- VwGH Ra 2025/11/0196 vom 12.02.2026 (RIS) Court decision
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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12 Feb 2026 X Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H. (Krankenhausbetreiberin, im Erkenntnis anonymisiert)Tyrolean hospital operator: VwGH upholds time clock data in rest period violations Fine
The Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district administrative authority) penalised the managing director of a Tyrolean hospital operator because in September 2022 physicians had not been granted sufficient rest periods after extended shifts and maximum duty hours had been exceeded; the Regional Administrative Court set aside several counts because the time clock data were said to have been incorrect. On an official appeal on points of law (Amtsrevision) by the Minister of Labour, the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Administrative Court, VwGH) partly set aside that ruling: witness statements alone are not sufficient to rebut time clock records.
Time recording data count as evidence – anyone who considers them wrong needs a second control system, not just witnesses.
Working time recording and rest periods in hospitals
- Authority / court
- Verwaltungsgerichtshof (VwGH); Strafbehörde: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Innsbruck
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- §§ 4 Abs. 4 Z 1, 7 Abs. 3, 11 Abs. 1, 12 Abs. 1 Krankenanstalten-Arbeitszeitgesetz (KA-AZG); § 9 VStG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Liability of senior managers
- Fines imposed on the managing director under commercial law; liability of the company under § 9(7) VStG.
- VwGH, Erkenntnis vom 12.02.2026, Ra 2025/11/0035 (RIS) Court decision
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