Violation Tracker UK

A tool for researching corporate regulatory infringements in the UK. Produced by @GoodJobsFirst

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We're on Twitter! Introducing Violation Tracker UK, search any company to see their record of corporate lawbreaking...https://t.co/zVZXFVD7R7

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BDO has been fined £2m for significant breaches in its audit of collapsed building firm NMCN.

In the last five years BDO has been fined a total of £8.4m for accounting failures

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One in seven workers have their legal rights violated and enforcement is dismally low

Will the FWA agency use the data available to proactively enforce?

Read more in our latest blog:

https://t.co/Uaxs1hXSxg

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New to Violation Tracker UK? Why not read this Q+A with director Phil Mattera on Critical Takes on Corporate Power 👉https://t.co/2KxZDXsqw5

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British Gas has been fined £20 million and will pay compensation to customers after forcibly installing 40,000 pre-payment meters.
Parent company Centrica has been sanctioned at least 31 times since 2011 for consumer-protection, competition, employment and safety-related offences

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South Staffordshire has been fined £963,900 by the ICO after failing to put in place adequate security controls resulting in hundreds of thousands of its customers having their personal data published on the dark web

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Did you know 38% of London's air pollution comes from industrial and commercial sources yet 25 out of 33 boroughs have not taken any enforcement action for corporate air pollution?

Meanwhile one borough accounted for 88% of all actions. Read more here: https://t.co/TELqATVzrE

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An SFO investigation has led to a deferred prosecution agreement with Ultra Electronics who will pay a penalty of £15m.

This is the first corporate bribery sanction by the SFO since 2022

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Community tenants union fills gaps left by poor regulation in Northern Ireland
Since 2010 there have only been:
42 penalties for corporate housing violations
6 convictions
Total fines of only £166,914

Read more in our latest blog:https://t.co/4tOC9sdUdk @catubelfast

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Industrial Chemicals Limited has been fined once again for clear health and safety failings that led to employees suffering serious injuries.

Since 2011 the firm has been sanctioned 31 times by the HSE, including a £2.5m fine last year for a similar offence

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UK govt strategic supplier Capita has once again been reported to the ICO for a data breach.

Just last year it was fined £14m for a breach that affected 6.6 million people. It was given substantial leniency (penalty down from an initial £45m)

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Eurotunnel has been fined £2.25m after a surveyor was hit by a 115kg lighting carriage

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EnQuest has been fined £16.5m for failing to decommission inactive wells - putting the marine environment at risk

It is the biggest fine issued by the NSTA in recent years

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The Fair Work Agency launches today.

It must:
💷Be properly resourced
🔐Ensure safe reporting mechanisms
🪟Be committed to transparency

https://t.co/bVdq9uPP3d

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We are part of a coalition of organisations calling for three priorities for the Fair Work Agency: proper resourcing, safe reporting mechanisms and transparency

Read the briefing: https://t.co/cP66aXsryQ

#FairWorkAgency @trustforlondon @WORCrights @FocusOnLabour @GoodJobsFirst

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Wood Group has been fined £13m for inaccurate financial reporting

Wood Group and subsidiaries have a history of bribery offences:in Brazil, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, paying penalties imposed in Scotland, the US, Brazil and by the Serious Fraud Office

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Katharine Braddick has been named as the new head of the Prudential Regulation Authority

Whilst the former Barclays Exec was in position, the bank paid £96m in penalties for consumer-protection and financial offences

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British Airways fined €140m by the EU commission for its part in a cartel to fix fuel and security surcharges

Globally, BA has been fined over $277m for corporate misconduct including price-fixing, privacy violations, safety and employment offences in the UK

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More sewage dumping from Yorkshire Water, which has been sanctioned 100 TIMES since 2011:
- 92 environmental offences
-£140m in Ofwat fines
-employee fatality

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Meanwhile it's business as usual for the filthy business that is the water industry.

Yesterday Yorkshire water was fined £733,000 for illegally dumping sewage that the 92nd time the company has been found guilty.

Will any executive go to jail, will any executive even be prosecuted, the answer is no, they never are.

Remember, last year YW were fined £40,000,000. It never for paid, the fine was waived, they were let off.

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The Bank of Ireland has been fined £3.7 million for failing to implement safety features to protect its customers from fraud.

VTGlobal shows failing to protect customers is a pattern of behaviour for this bank, particularly in Ireland where people have even lost their homes

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NS&I has reportedly wasted £3bn on a digital revamp...but where is the story of the companies paid millions to deliver this project?

https://t.co/vPkHn8XHEa