Prior passing of the Fundamental Rights exam is recommended

The course aims to provide students with a general overview of the so-called European social model, from its historical development to its place in the current economic and employment crisis. The analysis moves then to the principles of European labour law, recognized in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as to the directives aimed at implementing those principles. Besides the knowledge of the evolution of European social policy, of the European principles of labour law and of individual legal institutions, students will have to acquire a method that allows them to understand the problems posed by the transposition of the various directives by the Member States, in dialogue with the case law of the EU Court of Justice.

Students not enrolled in the IECoLS are required to have at least a B2 level of English.

1) Constitutional principles of Italian labour law

2) International and European labour law

3) European labour law and social dimension of the European Union

4) Free movement of workers and freedom of services in the common market

5) From free movement to labour and social law and policy

6) The Single European Act and European social dialogue

7) The Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers

8) The Protocol and Agreement on Social Policy of the Maastricht Treaty

9) European labour law and European social model

10) The European Employment Strategy

11) The open method of coordination and the Lisbon Strategy

12) The European Social Charter and the Treaty of Nice

13) The EU Charter of fundamental rights and EU competences

14) The role of the European Court of Justice

15) Equal treatment and anti-discrimination law

16) Harmonisation and industrial relation context

17) Restructuring of enterprises: collective redundancies and company or business transfer

18) Working time, health and safety at work, EU standards

19) Fair and just working conditions

20) Protection in the event of unjustified dismissal

21) Employment and labour market

22) Part time work, fixed-term work and temporary agency work

23) Collective labour law Information, consultation and participation

24) Freedom of association

25) Right of collective bargaining and action and posting directive

(A) T. Jaspers, F. Pennings, S. Peters, European Labour Law, Intersentia, Cambridge, 2019, 4-15; 45-495 (ISBN-13: ? 978-1780687049)

(C) G. Casale, Fundamentals of International Labour Law, Giappichelli, Torino, 2020, 1-78 (ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-8892133853)

The course will be entirely held in English

• The didactic approach is theoretical, combined with case-law studies. Frontal lesson. The course will be as interactive as possible. Additional teaching materials (judgments of the EU Court of Justice and national courts, documents of the European Commission or other European bodies) will be provided to the students through slides, available on the online platform. Students will be also requested to read recent EU Court of Justice decisions and to present them to their colleagues in specific classes. Handouts, taken from legal encyclopaedias available on the Internet, will be provided for knowledge of the historical development and basic institutions of labour law

• The examination mode is exclusively written, in English. There is no intermediate examination. The written examination will consist of closed-ended questions and short open-ended questions. It will not be possible to consult texts during the examination. Criteria for grading marks, as a percentage of the overall assessment: a) knowledge and ability to understand texts: 40 %. b) ability to apply knowledge: 20 %. c) ability to express knowledge: 20 %. d) autonomy of judgement and critical thinking: 20 %.

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