Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

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.

Programme

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

Adopted texts

- PERSIANI, LIEBMAN, MARAZZA, MARTONE, DEL CONTE, FERRARI, MAIO, Fondamenti di diritto del lavoro, Giappichelli, ult.ed.
- PERSIANI-LUNARDON, Fondamenti di diritto sindacale, Giappichelli, ult.ed.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the basic notions of private and public law. It is necessary to have passed the private law exam.

Frequency modes

optional

Exam modes

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.