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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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Where?
by authority- Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco (TSJPV; Vorinstanz: Audiencia Provincial de Bizkaia) €18,000 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by companyNo cases for this selection.
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
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| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 1 | €18,000 |
1 case
21 Sep 2026 Gilda producer systematically employed workers without permits – 18,000 EUR fine €18,000
The owner of a business in Bizkaia that produces and sells Basque gildas repeatedly employed foreign workers without work permits between December 2018 and May 2021, thereby reducing wage and social security costs. The High Court of Justice of the Basque Country (Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco, TSJPV) upheld the conviction by the Audiencia de Bizkaia (Bizkaia Provincial Court) for an offence against workers' rights: a fine of 18,000 EUR and 2,500 EUR compensation for each employee bringing a claim; an earlier administrative sanction against the company does not preclude this. The judgment is not yet final (date = publication).
Administrative fines do not protect against criminal prosecution – in Spain, systematic employment without work permits is prosecuted as a criminal offence of the owner.
- Authority / court
- Tribunal Superior de Justicia del País Vasco (TSJPV; Vorinstanz: Audiencia Provincial de Bizkaia)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work
- Legal basis
- Art. 311 bis a) Código Penal (Delitos contra los derechos de los trabajadores)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Culpability
- intentional
- Repeat case
- yes
- Liability of senior managers
- Owner personally convicted under criminal law; administrative sanctions had previously been imposed on the company.
- Published
- 21 Sep 2026
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link