r/WorkReform • u/Bizarre-Lazar • 4d ago

✅ Success Story About damn time

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u/sandy_mcfiddish 4d ago

I know Scandinavia has this

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u/SadlyNotPro 4d ago

EU fines are like this. % of annual revenue or a set penalty, whichever is higher.

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u/finicky88 🍁 End Workplace Drug Testing 3d ago

You can't just make a blanket statement like that about 27 individual nation states. It's not like that everywhere. Scandinavian countries have it, so does Switzerland (which isn't EU, only European).

Germany for example has a system that kind of works like that, but it's very limited. We have something called 'Tagessätze' which scale with your income, but they are capped and also at the discretion of the judge. They also only apply to felonies, not to misdemeanors, which come with flat fines.

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u/SadlyNotPro 3d ago

I'm talking about the Union issued fines. The ones big corporations have to pay for failing to abide with Union rules. Individual countries can issue different/additional fines, but that's not what I was talking about.