19838 - Employment Law and International Dimension

Learning outcomes

Beginning from the acknowledgement of principal concepts of labour law, typically a national discipline, the course proposes to compare the fore mentioned concepts with the problems caused by economic globalisation, as well as analyse regulation techniques and measures for protecting workers at trans-national level. A large part of the course will be dedicated to the themes of EU labour law.

At the end of the course students:

- will acquire a critical knowledge of the principal themes of labour law;

- will acquire methodology to analyse problems of labour law in the international context;

- will be able to analyse sources of EU labour law.

Course contents

First part. Themes and problems of Labour Law

In first ten lessons of the course it will be offer a synthetic treatment of main themes of contemporary Labour Law, proposing them in historical development and starting from national experience:

- how “the law of twentieth-century” rises and develops: aims and tools of Labour Law;

- sources: law, collective agreement, individual working contract;

- equality and unbreakability;

- Labour law and labour market;

- solidarity and collective dimension today: collective bargaining and conflict;

- flexibility and security.

Second part. Beyond national Labour Law

A) Globalization and social dimension: ambits, institutions and techniques of protection

1. National level and crisis of States' role;

2. “Regional” level, with particular reference to European Union's specificities;

3. International institutions and their regulating competency of workers' rights.

In particular: International Labour Organization.

4. Regulating techniques of labour in the transnational level.

B) The Labour Law in European Union

1. Historical development, principles and sources of Community Labour Law;

2. Policies of employment in EU and free movement of workers;

3. Between flexibility and security: non-standard workers in EU;

4. Equality and non-discrimination;

5. Protection of health and security, starting from working time;

6. Collective dimension of European labour law: collective actors, consultation, bargaining,

participation and conflict;

7. Event of enterprises and protection of workers. In particular: collective dismissals and transfer of

enterprise;

8. Fundamental social rights, European constitutional process and national constitutions.

Readings/Bibliography

The course presupposes the knowledge about essential themes of Labour Law: the first part of the course is directed to this aim. It will be considered that the most part of students has never attended a course on basic labour law. The preliminary reading of an up-to-date manual about Italian labour law (or of another EU Country)is keenly suggested (and indispensable for non-attending students).

For the final examination, the texts are the following:

1) Massimo Roccella, Tiziano Treu, Diritto del lavoro dell'Unione Europea, VI ed.,

Padova, Cedam, 2012.

2) Reading of one of working papers of Centro studi di diritto del lavoro europeo "Massimo

D'Antona" (chosen by student among those ones included in the period from 2005 to 2012),

available on website www.lex.unict.it/eurolabor/ricerca/wp/wp_int.htm

For attending students, the reading at number 2 can be replaced by the study of texts and/or documents that will be subject of seminar deepening during the lessons.

Hereafter some useful texts are indicated for study in depth and for choosing the topic of degree thesis (this bibliography con be integrated during the course)

Barbera M. (a cura di), Nuove forme di regolazione: il metodo aperto di coordinamento delle politiche sociali, Milano, Giuffrè, 2006

Giubboni S., Orlandini G., La libera circolazione dei lavoratori nellUnione europea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007

Daugareilh I. (dir.), Mondialisation, travail et droits fondamentaux, Bruxelles, Bruylant - Paris, L.G.D.J., 2005

Imprese transnazionali e diritto del lavoro, fascicoli monografici n. 3-4/2005 della rivista "Lavoro e diritto", ed Il Mulino, Bologna

Lyon-Caen A., Perulli A. (a cura di), Liberalizzazione degli scambi, integrazione dei mercati e diritto del lavoro, Padova, Cedam, 2005

Moreau M.A., Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation. Confrontations et mutations, Paris, Dalloz, 2006

Dimensione individuale e collettiva nel diritto del lavoro, fascicolo monografico n. 2/2008 della rivista "Lavoro e diritto", Bologna, Il Mulino.

Bob Hepple, Labour Laws and Global Trade, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2005.

Delocalizzazioni produttive e dumping sociale, fascicolo monografico n. 1/2011 della rivista "Lavoro e diritto", Bologna, Il Mulino.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons, some of which will be in seminar form.

It's scheduled the participation of visitor professors.

Assessment methods

Final test will consist in oral examination.

For attending students the writing of an essay about a specific topiccan be fixed. It will concur to the final examination.

Office hours

See the website of Anna Rita Tinti