LABOR LAW

Course objectives

The course aims to provide students with a full and updated understanding of the basic elements of employment and labour law, also under a developmental perspective, including the legal regulation of individual employment agreements and trade union relations. In particular, the course is concerned with the enforcement mechanisms of the broad structures of the law and its institutions, cases law and scholarship as well as the most recent changes to the relevant legislation. After completing the course: 1. Knowledge and understanding The student must demonstrate the acquisition of a basic knowledge of the discipline of individual and collective employment relationships. 2. Applying knowledge and understanding The student must demonstrate the ability to apply the concepts learned to concrete cases. 3. Making judgement The student must demonstrate that he has developed legally founded ideas. 4. Communication skills The student must demonstrate that he has acquired the capacity for argumentation and ownership of legal language. 5. Learning skills The student must have demonstrated that he has developed a capacity to understand the discipline of employment relationships, its evolution and its main interpretative problems.

Channel 1
MICHEL MARTONE Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The course explores, in monographic lessons, the main institutes which, through work, aim to ensure a free and dignified existence for all citizens. More specifically, the course will be divided into the following lessons: 1. At the origins of the employment relationship: subordination 2. Phenomenology of trade union action 3. The liberal order and collective action 4. The corporate system and the erga omnes collective agreement 5. Work and business in the civil code 6. The collective agreement of common law in the transition to the constitutional order 7. Work and pluralism in the Constitution 8. The collective agreement of common law and the right to just remuneration 9. The powers of the employer 10. The rights and duties of the employee 11. Suspension of the employment relationship 12. 1968 and the Workers' Statute 13. Trade union action in the company and the repression of anti-union conduct 14. Labor law in an emergency: wages, inflation and productivity 15. Concertation and income policy 16. Collective conflict and strike in essential public services 17. Occupational safety 18. The multiplication of contractual types 19. Individual and collective dismissal 20. New production paradigms and job protection 21. European single market, austerity and labor and pension reform 22. Extraordinary measures and income support tools in the Covid-19 emergency 23. Remote work beyond the emergency 24. Industry 4.0: artificial intelligence, blockchain, the man-machine relationship. What future for work?
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basic notions of private and constitutional law. It is necessary to have passed the private law exam.
Books
Texts for exam preparation for attenders: PERSIANI, LIEBMAN, MARAZZA, MARTONE, DEL CONTE, FERRARI, MAIO, Diritto del lavoro, Giappichelli, ult. ed. (tutto tranne i Capitoli VI, VIII, IX, X). Texts for exam preparation for non-attenders: PERSIANI, LIEBMAN, MARAZZA, MARTONE, DEL CONTE, FERRARI, MAIO, Diritto del lavoro, Giappichelli, ult. ed. PERSIANI, LUNARDON, Diritto sindacale, Giappichelli, ult.ed. Suggested: MARTONE (eds), Il lavoro da remoto. Per una riforma dello smart working oltre l'emergenza, La Tribuna, 2020.
Teaching mode
The course includes frontal teaching lessons
Exam mode
The course includes oral tests for all students. For attending students further oral tests are scheduled during the course, which is taken into account in the final evaluation. The exam aims to ascertain the possession of the theoretical knowledge transmitted during the course, the analytical skills and arguments of the student. The maximum score is given to students who demonstrate excellent knowledge of the subject.
Bibliography
Recommended reading: MARTONE (a cura di), Il lavoro da remoto. Per una riforma dello smart working oltre l'emergenza, La Tribuna, 2020.
Lesson mode
The course includes frontal teaching lessons
Channel 2
PAOLA FERRARI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
I Part: Employment and labour law: origins and development. Legal sources. Collective autonomy. Freedom of association and union action. Representation issues. Collective bargaining. Strike, lockout and other forms of industrial actions. Strike in essential public services. Trade union rights. Repression of anti-union actions. Labour law and privatization of the public employment relationship. II Part: Wage labour. Classification of the employment relationship. Contract of employment. The labour market. The role of the employer. Employees’ rights and responsibilities. The employer-employee relationship. Termination of employment, with a special focus on resignation and dismissal. Compensation rights. The protection of the status
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basic notions of private and constitutional law. It is necessary to have passed the private law exam.
Books
- PERSIANI, LIEBMAN, MARAZZA, MARTONE, DEL CONTE, FERRARI, MAIO, Diritto del lavoro, Giappichelli, ult.ed. - PERSIANI-LUNARDON, Fondamenti di diritto sindacale, Giappichelli, ult.ed.
Frequency
Facultative
Exam mode
The course includes oral tests for all students. For attending students further tests are scheduled during the course, which is taken into account in the final evaluation. The exam aims to ascertain the possession of the theoretical knowledge transmitted during the course, the analytical skills and arguments of the student. The maximum score is given to students who demonstrate excellent knowledge of the subject.
Lesson mode
The course includes frontal teaching lessons
  • Lesson code1009300
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseBusiness sciences
  • CurriculumGestione d'impresa
  • Year3rd year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDIUS/07
  • CFU6