WELFARE POLICIES AND EUROPEAN LABOR LAW

Course objectives

The course aims to introduce students to the fundamental features of European social law and the most significant stages of the process of "communitarianization" of national labor rights. Thanks to the specific attention dedicated to the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice and the dialogue established with it by the national courts, students will also have the opportunity to verify the concrete impact of the European Union sources on the Member States and on the evolution of European labor law . At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate: to know the effectiveness and contents of the various European Union sources on labor matters; to have correctly understood the mechanisms of interaction between sources and between courts of the current multilevel system; to master the technical legal language of the subject and to be able to search for the sources of discipline of the subject in the codes and institutional sites; to have acquired the ability to communicate what has been learned through interventions in seminars or group work in which documents, sentences and practical cases will be critically discussed; to be able to proceed autonomously with the updating of the constantly evolving subject, thanks to the mastery of research tools and self-learning methods.

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LUCIA VALENTE Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Teaching program The european system of sources and general principles Employment Policies and Free Movement of Workers in the EU The Community notion of employee (subordinate worker) The protection of digital economy workers in the EU; AI Act Social dialogue and employees' involvement in the company Equality and non-discrimination Working time Atypical workers Health and safety in the work environment Industrial relations and European collective bargaining Minimum wage, unemployment insurance and income support A compared panorama of European social security systems Information on working conditions European minimum wage
Prerequisites
Given the content of the course, which refers mainly to European and supranational regulatory sources, as well as to the typical instruments of European soft law, a prior knowledge of Italian labor law is not required.
Books
Recommended texts M. Roccella, T. Treu, M.P. Aimo D. Izzi, Diritto del lavoro dell'Unione europea ultima edizione CEDAM Students actively attending the course will be offered the possibility to replace some parts of the above text-books.
Frequency
Attendance is not mandatory. Students actively attending the course will be offered the possibility to replace some parts of the text-book for the final exam.Attendance is required for the preparation of classroom seminars
Exam mode
For non-attending students, the final evaluation will be carried out through an oral interview. For attending students, during the course students will be asked to discuss practical cases through a seminar concerning material distributed during the lessons and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice and uploaded to the classroom platform. Also for attending students who took the seminar, it is possible to support a written exemption. the final grade takes into account the seminar and the existence of the written exemption.
Lesson mode
Teaching methods The course is characterized by the combination of different teaching methods: - traditional face-to-face lessons; - students’ participation in the discussion of judicial cases; - presentations from experts and practitioners; Power point presentations, readings and judicial decisions texts will be supplied by means of the classroom platform
  • Lesson code10612491
  • Academic year2024/2025
  • CourseEconomics and policies for global sustainability
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year1st year
  • Semester2nd semester
  • SSDIUS/07
  • CFU6
  • Subject areaGiuridico