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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 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 regionAll jurisdictions
What for?
by action- Fine €6.96m 59 % · 6 cases
- Other €4.78m 40 % · 7 cases
- Disgorgement of profits €120,000 1 % · 1 case
- Order – 0 % · 2 cases
Who?
by sectorAll sectors
- Retail and e-commerce €6.44m 54 % · 3 cases
- Food and agriculture €3.45m 29 % · 4 cases
- Transport, logistics and shipping €755,668 6 % · 2 cases
- Healthcare €612,121 5 % · 1 case
- Other €497,534 4 % · 3 cases
- Automotive €69,524 1 % · 1 case
- Energy and utilities €27,000 0 % · 1 case
- Construction and real estate – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | €1.43m |
| 2024 | 5 | €8.7m |
| 2025 | 4 | €1.73m |
| 2026 | 1 | – |
16 cases
3 Jul 2026 TMA Haulage LtdTMA Haulage: operator licence curtailed from five to four vehicles, revocation from 6 October 2026 Other
Following an investigation by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), the Traffic Commissioner (regulator of commercial vehicle operators) found that the sole director of TMA Haulage Ltd had driven using the driver card of a former employee, thereby falsifying the records, three times in June and July 2025 and – after being interviewed by the DVSA – twice in April 2026; on one of those days he continued driving in this way without taking the break that was due. The operator's licence was curtailed immediately from five to four vehicles and revoked with effect from 6 October 2026. Measures against individuals are not set out here.
Driver cards are strictly personal – regularly comparing vehicle unit data with the cards of the drivers deployed uncovers misuse before the authority does.
Drivers' hours and misuse of driver cards
- Authority / court
- Traffic Commissioner (Western Traffic Area); Ermittlung: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995, ss. 26(1)(f), 27(1)(a) und (b); Road Traffic Act 1988, ss. 115, 117; Tachografen- und Lenkzeitvorschriften
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- According to the decision, points in the company's favour were: most compliance systems in place, drivers properly employed, an MOT pass rate in line with the national average, and the re-engagement of a consultant and legal representation.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 22 Jul 2026
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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17 Dec 2025 Asparagus farm without reliable working time records: Raad van State upholds 11,250 EUR €11,250
In May/June 2022, the working time records of an asparagus business (anonymised in the judgment) deviated structurally from the hours actually worked; among other things, Sunday work went unrecorded, so compliance with working and rest times could not be checked. The Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Dutch Council of State (Raad van State, Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak) upheld the fine of 11,250 EUR, imposed in 2023 without prior warning, including the increase factor of 1.5.
Working time records that do not reflect actual hours are treated as missing – businesses are then sanctioned without prior warning.
Correct recording of working and rest times
- Authority / court
- Raad van State, Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak (Bußgeld: Minister van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- Art. 4:3 Abs. 1 Arbeidstijdenwet
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Raad van State, ECLI:NL:RVS:2025:6142 vom 17.12.2025 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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21 Oct 2025 Winsor Maintenance Inc., Main Source Group, Inc. u. a. sowie OptumCare Management LLC (Auftraggeberin)Cleaning companies/OptumCare: 438,204 USD – overtime and missed breaks €377,534
More than 90 cleaners in industrial, laboratory and healthcare facilities often worked beyond scheduled hours without overtime pay, received no compensation for split shifts and travel time and were unable to take breaks because of excessive workloads. A web of companies concealed the employer; the Notice of Final Findings of 21 October 2025 established 438,204 USD, with OptumCare jointly liable as the client.
Clients of cleaning and service providers should check working hours and breaks at the provider – otherwise they are jointly liable.
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Labor Code § 2810.3; Overtime, Split Shift, Meal and Rest Periods, Mindestlohn
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
- Published
- 24 Nov 2025
Original amount 438,204 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 21 Oct 2025.
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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22 Sep 2025 Onkar Group Pty Ltd (Bakeology)Bakeology: 1.35 million AUD after fatigued delivery driver's fatal crash €755,668
The warehousing and logistics company Onkar Group Pty Ltd (Bakeology) was sentenced by the County Court in Wangaratta after guilty pleas to five charges, after a delivery driver died in August 2022 when, twelve hours after starting a night shift, his van ended up in front of an oncoming lorry. He had driven the same 796-kilometre route on 17 nights in a row, mostly in shifts of more than twelve hours without sufficient rest. The company received 1.1 million AUD for reckless endangerment and a total of 250,000 AUD for failing to provide safe working conditions; in addition, the offence must be publicised in an industry publication. Measures against individuals are not set out here.
Employers must set binding maximum working hours, breaks and rest periods for drivers and instruct them on fatigue.
Driver fatigue: shift length, breaks and rest periods
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- WorkSafe Victoria
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic): rücksichtslose Gefährdung, Pflicht zu sicherem Arbeitsplatz, Schutz von Nicht-Beschäftigten, Haftung als Organ (officer)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty pleas.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 22 Sep 2025
Original amount 1,350,000 AUD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Sep 2025.
- WorkSafe Victoria: Company and director fined $1.43 million after fatigued driver's fatal crash (22.09.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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4 Sep 2025 Midri, Inc. (Restaurant J BBQ, Los Angeles)Restaurant J BBQ: 680,238 USD – breaks denied, split shifts without premium €584,046
The Koreatown restaurant regularly denied 48 employees meal and rest breaks, required them to remain available for guests even during the lunch break, did not pay split-shift premiums and did not pay all wages. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office imposed 680,238 USD, of which 538,638 USD for the benefit of the employees.
In the restaurant trade, breaks must be actively scheduled and documented – being on call for guests during the break turns it into working time.
Break arrangements in the restaurant trade
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Labor Code (Meal and Rest Periods, Split Shift Premium, Lohnabrechnung)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
Original amount 680,238 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 4 Sep 2025.
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link
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16 Sep 2024 five Californian outlet companies of a fast-food franchiseeFast-food franchisee: 1.7 million USD – overtime evaded by splitting up companies €1.53m
The franchisee ran five outlets of a fast-food chain in California as separate companies and deployed employees at several locations on the same day. As a result, they lost out on overtime premiums after eight hours a day or 40 hours a week, premiums for missed meal breaks, paid travel time and the higher minimum wage for larger employers; the settlement of 1.7 million USD concerns around 550 employees.
Working time is added up across all locations of the same employer – splitting into separate companies does not protect against overtime obligations.
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Labor Code (Overtime, Meal Periods, Mindestlohn)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
Original amount 1,700,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 16 Sep 2024.
- California DIR, Medienraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 6 · Company name anonymised since 16 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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18 Jun 2024 a major US online retailerUS online retailer: 5.9 million USD – undisclosed productivity quotas in two warehouses (Warehouse Quotas Law) €5.51m
The online retailer did not inform employees at two warehouses in Southern California in writing of the productivity quotas that applied; the authority regarded the peer-to-peer rating system used as a quota within the meaning of the law, which prohibits quotas that prevent breaks, toilet visits or compliance with health and safety. For 59,017 violations between October 2023 and March 2024, the Labor Commissioner’s Office imposed 5,901,700 USD.
Disclose performance metrics for employees, and do not let them effectively prevent breaks – even when they come in the guise of peer ratings.
Making productivity quotas and break rights transparent (managers)
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Warehouse Quotas Law (AB 701, Labor Code §§ 2100 ff.); Labor Code § 2699(f)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
Original amount 5,901,700 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Jun 2024.
- California DIR, Medienraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 18 Jun 2026 · Direct link
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12 Jun 2024 a Californian care facilityCalifornian care facility: 658,948 USD – care workers up to 24 hours without breaks €612,121
At the care facility, employees worked up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, were not allowed to leave the premises, had to work through breaks and received no overtime pay. The settlement of 658,948 USD comprises 608,948 USD for 34 employees (including overtime and break premiums) and 50,000 USD in civil penalties.
Round-the-clock shifts without rest periods are a recurring pattern in care – rosters need checks against maximum working hours and breaks.
Working time limits and breaks in care
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Labor Code (Überstunden, Meal and Rest Periods, Mindestlohn)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Healthcare
Original amount 658,948 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Jun 2024.
- California DIR, Medienraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 12 Jun 2026 · Direct link
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8 Feb 2024 three US trading companiesThree US trading companies: 1 million USD – warehouse workers without daily overtime and genuine breaks €929,541
Warehouse and sales staff were not paid for all hours worked, received overtime premiums only after 40 hours a week instead of after eight hours a day, and had to remain available to customers during rest and meal breaks. Following citations issued in 2021, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office agreed a settlement of 1 million USD for 107 employees.
A break during which employees must remain available is legally working time – break arrangements must ensure genuine interruptions.
Breaks are time off work – not standby
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Labor Code (Daily Overtime, Meal and Rest Periods, Mindestlohn)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
Original amount 1,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 8 Feb 2024.
- California DIR, Medienraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 8 Feb 2026 · Direct link
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22 Jan 2024 a German services companyUpper Palatinate labour inspectorate: €120,000 profit skimmed over working-time breaches €120,000
Following a complaint, the Gewerbeaufsichtsamt (labour inspectorate) at the Regierung der Oberpfalz found considerable breaches of the Arbeitszeitgesetz (German Working Hours Act) at a services company, which had not improved at a repeat inspection. The company must pay €120,000 in skimmed-off profit, calculated from the notional gain from the repeated excess working hours; it also committed to investing at least €100,000 in improved processes.
Anyone who fails to stop working-time breaches after a first inspection risks having the resulting gain skimmed off.
Maximum working hours and labour inspectorate checks
- Authority / court
- Gewerbeaufsichtsamt bei der Regierung der Oberpfalz
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- Arbeitszeitgesetz; Gewinnabschöpfung
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Mitigating circumstances
- The calculation took into account that the company had already taken noticeable measures after the last inspection.
- Published
- 22 Jan 2024
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 22 Jan 2026 · Direct link
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30 Nov 2023 an international commercial law firmHamburg: commercial law firm must record working time of employed lawyers Order
Following complaints about regular working days lasting until 11 pm or midnight, the Hamburg occupational safety authority ordered an international commercial law firm on 30 November 2023 to record the actual working hours of its employed lawyers, to instruct them accordingly and to explain the partners' responsibility. On 18 July 2025 the Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg (Hamburg Administrative Court) upheld the recording and instruction duties for employed lawyers and set aside only the third order. The judgment is not final; the court granted leave to appeal.
Billable client hours are not working-time records; law firms too must record the start, end and duration of work of employed lawyers.
Working-time recording for employed professionals
- Authority / court
- Hamburger Arbeitsschutzbehörde; bestätigt durch Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg, Kammer 21
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- § 22 Abs. 3 ArbSchG i. V. m. § 3 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 ArbSchG; § 17 Abs. 2 ArbZG; §§ 12, 22 Abs. 1 ArbSchG
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 18 Jul 2025
- VG Hamburg, Urteil vom 18.07.2025, 21 K 1202/25 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 30 Nov 2025 · Direct link
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21 Nov 2023 a Californian construction companyCalifornian construction company: over 1 million USD – up to 68 hours a week without overtime pay Other
Employees of the Californian construction company regularly worked 45 to 68 hours a week without being paid for overtime; there was also no paid sick leave and no proper wage statements. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office concluded a settlement with the company of more than 1 million USD for the benefit of 249 construction workers.
Anyone allowing long working weeks must also record and pay for them in full – systematic unrecorded overtime comes to light in every wage audit.
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Labor Code (Überstunden, Paid Sick Leave, Lohnabrechnung)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- California DIR, Medienraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 21 Nov 2025 · Direct link
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13 Oct 2023 a Dutch offshore construction companyNetherlands: EUR 27,000 fine on an offshore construction company as project crew worked up to 27 days in a row €27,000
The Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment fined a Dutch company whose activities include building and maintaining offshore wind farms EUR 27,000: according to the findings of the mining regulator Staatstoezicht op de Mijnen (Dutch State Supervision of Mines), twelve members of a project crew working on the construction of an offshore wind farm had worked on more than 14 consecutive days between 23 November and 20 December 2022; eleven of them for 20 days and one for 27 days in a row. The company argued without success that the working time rules for seafarers applied to the crew, which worked mainly on a crane vessel; the competent court dismissed its appeal on 20 November 2025.
For offshore work, the nature of the work determines which working time rules apply: anyone working for a wind farm is subject to the stricter offshore rules, even if the crew works mainly on board a ship.
Maximum number of consecutive working days in offshore work
- Authority / court
- Minister van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid (Bußgeld; Aufsicht: Staatstoezicht op de Mijnen); bestätigt durch Rechtbank Rotterdam
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- Arbeidstijdenwet; Art. 5.14:2 Abs. 3 i. V. m. Art. 5.17:2 Arbeidstijdenbesluit (Arbeit auf, von oder für einen Windpark auf See)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Published
- 1 Dec 2025
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 13 Oct 2025 · Direct link
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27 Sep 2023 an Australian car repair garageAustralian car repair garage: 115,000 AUD after fatal crash following 89 hours on call €69,524
The garage, which ran a roadside assistance service as a subcontractor of a motoring club, was fined 115,000 AUD by the County Court in Melbourne after a guilty plea for failing to provide a safe system of work and information or training to protect against fatigue. Both of its breakdown assistance drivers regularly spent 96 hours on call across four days and nights; in March 2018 one of them left the road and died after 89 hours on call and 17 hours of work, and traces at the scene suggested that he had fallen asleep while driving.
On-call duty must be limited by maximum shift lengths and minimum breaks so that employees can rest adequately between call-outs.
Fatigue from long on-call periods and working hours
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- WorkSafe Victoria
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- Arbeitsschutzrecht Victoria: Pflicht zu sicheren Arbeitssystemen sowie zu Information, Unterweisung und Schulung
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Automotive
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty plea.
- Published
- 27 Sep 2023
Original amount 115,000 AUD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Sep 2023.
- WorkSafe Victoria, Veröffentlichung der Behörde (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 27 Sep 2025 · Direct link
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22 Sep 2023 a German outdoor retailerHamburg: order to record working time against outdoor retailer upheld by court Order
Following an anonymous complaint about Sunday work and overlong working days, the Hamburg Amt für Arbeitsschutz (Office for Occupational Safety) ordered one of Europe's largest outdoor retailers on 22 September 2023 to record the actual working hours of all employees, including those on trust-based working time, with start, end and duration, and to submit records. On 21 August 2024 the Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg (Hamburg Administrative Court) largely dismissed the action, finding § 22(3) sentence 1 no. 1 ArbSchG (German Occupational Safety and Health Act) a sufficient legal basis; only part of one item had become moot.
Trust-based working time does not exempt from time recording; occupational safety authorities can enforce it by order without waiting for new legislation.
Duty to record working time even under trust-based working time
- Authority / court
- Amt für Arbeitsschutz Hamburg (Behörde für Justiz und Verbraucherschutz); bestätigt durch Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg, Kammer 15
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- § 22 Abs. 3 Satz 1 Nr. 1 ArbSchG i. V. m. § 3 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 ArbSchG (Aufzeichnungsanordnung); § 17 Abs. 4 ArbZG (Vorlage von Arbeitszeitaufzeichnungen)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Published
- 21 Aug 2024
- VG Hamburg, Urteil vom 21.08.2024, 15 K 964/24 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 22 Sep 2025 · Direct link
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26 Apr 2023 three Californian poultry companiesCalifornian poultry businesses: 1.47 million USD – no paid rest breaks for piece-rate workers €1.33m
More than 300 piece-rate workers who deboned chicken thighs at five subcontractors received no paid rest breaks, no correct overtime pay and no pay for waiting time; in some cases wages were below the minimum wage, and there was also no workers’ compensation insurance cover. The client companies are liable as client employers; following a 2021 decision of around 1.5 million USD, the liable parties jointly paid 1.47 million USD under a settlement.
Anyone sourcing labour via subcontractors is jointly liable in California for their break and wage violations – clients must vet their service providers.
- Authority / court
- California Labor Commissioner's Office (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Working time
- Legal basis
- California Labor Code § 2810.3 (Client-Employer-Haftung); Rest Periods, Overtime, Mindestlohn
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
Original amount 1,470,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Apr 2023.
- California DIR, Medienraum (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 6 · Company name anonymised since 26 Apr 2025 · Direct link