The law introducing the Social Criminal Code became effective on
1 July 2011. By introducing the Social Criminal Code the legislator
aims at establishing a clear and coordinated whole of the sanctions
that may be imposed in case of violation of the employment and
industrial relations legislation and of the social security
legislation.
For a very large number of statutory and regulatory obligations
laid down in the employment and industrial relations legislation
and the social security legislation administrative fines or
criminal sanctions may be imposed. The administrative fines have
been bound together in the law of 30 June 1971. Nevertheless, this
has not prevented a very vast variety as far as the amounts of the
possible administrative fines are concerned. Possible criminal
sanctions are even far less surveyable because each of them has
been laid down each time separately in the laws concerned. The
result thereof is a whole spectrum of criminal fines and
