44 hand #carwashes were investigated by HM #Immigration (using staff redeployed from the abandoned Rwanda deportation scheme of the previous government) for several months last year with £2.9 *million* of #fines issued to owners for employing staff without valid paperwork/visa.
According to the #HomeOffice themselves, the bulk of these businesses *are* now compliant with regulations (this might explain why many have raised their prices in recent months) >>
Objective = Money + Power - One Agency Tried to Regulate #SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in #ElonMusk Hands. #Trump ally and #DOGE chief is expected to turn his #budget-slashing sights on the #FAA little-known commercial #spaceflight office, which has proposed #fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents. #space #safety #transportation #contracts #dangerous #rocket #program https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-doge-faa-ast-regulation-spaceflight-trump #commercial #space #transportation #AST #billionaires #politics #government
@xssfox @drwho @knightly666 @Melissabeartrix @Tattooed_Mummy
#Funfact: #Germany has that in most cases with #fines, being defined as "day sets" which is equal to the total income of a person after taxes and fees.
Otherwise set fines would be insultingly low and not work as a tool to decentivize bad actions.
Meta Fined $840 Million in Europe for Boosting Marketplace Unfairly - Meta said it would appeal the decision by the European Union, which said the company had ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/meta-european-union-facebook-marketplace-fine.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #suitsandlitigation(civil) #vestagermargrethe #fines(penalties) #metaplatformsinc #europeanunion #socialmedia #facebookinc #e-commerce
It's cruel what the media is doing to that #sick #old #man #donaldtrump...
I almost feel sorry for him...
#Nah...
#Media has been building trump up for their #horserace, just enough, so that the #poor #stupid #bastard #trump believes he, a #Nazi #Seditionist #Convicted #Felon and #Adjudicated #Rapist, actually has a chance for a win, #LOL, when they know that #trump and his #Fascism and his #Nazism and his #Jan6 #Sedition and his #TrumpAbortionBans and his #maga #trumpism are about to be #Aborted, when The #US performs an #Abortion on the #trumpcampaign with his coming #Election #Loss, and they know that that they, the #world #press, are about to make #billions on wall to wall #global #breakingnews #news coverage of #trump's upcoming #criminal #trials and ultimately #guilty verdicts for trump's #fraud and #crimes against the #American people, as well as trump's subsequent #punishment #fines and ultimate #incarceration.
