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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 1 | €200,000 |
| Q2 2024 | 1 | €98,722 |
| 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 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 1 | €35,000 |
7 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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4 May 2026 Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) AöRBlnBDI reprimands BVG: deletion at service provider not checked, data breach reported too late Reprimand or warning
A processor of Berlin's public transport operator BVG, which had sent customer letters in early 2025, was hacked; around 180,000 customer records were affected, although they should long since have been deleted after the end of the contract. BVG had never checked the deletion, had not agreed any procedure for data breaches in the data processing agreement and reported the incident only after the 72-hour deadline had expired; the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BlnBDI) issued a reprimand.
Have service providers prove deletion after the end of the contract, and have an internal procedure that immediately turns indications of a breach into a 72-hour notification.
Reporting process for data breaches and management of service providers
- Authority / court
- Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (BlnBDI)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data processors
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 2 i. V. m. Abs. 1 lit. c, e, f, Art. 28 Abs. 3 S. 2 lit. f, Art. 32 Abs. 1, Art. 33 DSGVO
- Action
- Reprimand or warning
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- BVG has announced measures against similar incidents.
- Published
- 4 May 2026
- Datenschutzbeauftragte verwarnt BVG 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
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10 Jun 2024 Favre SA Transports Internationaux TIR Martigny; weitere Parteien: Favre et Studer SA, RETRIPA VALAIS SA, TMR, Centre de Transferts Martigny SAWEKO: sanction against Valais transport and waste disposal firm over bid rigging €98,722
Companies engaged in the collection, transport and disposal of waste in Valais colluded on bids. WEKO imposed a sanction of CHF 95,138 on Favre SA TIR Martigny (Favre et Studer: CHF 0), approved amicable settlements and apportioned the procedural costs among four companies.
Municipal waste disposal contracts are a focus of competition authorities – contacts about bids among competitors are off-limits, including among SMEs.
Collusion in municipal waste disposal tenders
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 3 i.V.m. Abs. 1 KG, Art. 49a Abs. 1 KG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- Amicable settlements; leniency programme (Favre et Studer free of sanctions)
Original amount 95,138 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Jun 2024.
- Transport de marchandises et déchets en Valais : Décision du 10 juin 2024 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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22 Jan 2024 Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AGHHLA: failure to publish notices on financial reports €200,000
HHLA had not announced from when and at which internet address the 2021 annual financial report and the 2022 half-yearly financial report were publicly available. The fine has been final since 14 February 2024.
Safeguard recurring mandatory publications by means of a checklist with named responsible persons and deadlines.
- Authority / court
- Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
- Legal basis
- § 114 Abs. 1 Satz 2 i. V. m. § 117 Nr. 1 und § 115 Abs. 1 Satz 2 i. V. m. § 117 Nr. 2 WpHG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Published
- 2 Feb 2024
- Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft: BaFin setzt Geldbuße fest Decision of an authority
- Bekanntmachung der BaFin zur Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft (Maßnahmenansicht mit Rechtskraftvermerk) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link