81971 - Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Learning outcomes

The course aims to address the issue of labor relations in the enterprise, with particular reference to collective bargaining and freedom of association and right of strike. The course also aims to provide the analytical tools to understand the legislation on employment, with particular reference to the regulation of flexible employment contracts and the discipline of transformation and crisis of undertakings

Course contents

General introduction: the principles of Italian labour legislation and European labour legislation and the evolution of industrial relations in Italy.

The industrial relations in the undertaking: stakeholders (Trade Unions and Employers' Associations) and industrial conflict (strike and lockout)

Collective agreement and Collective bargaining

Employment relationship: The distinction between employment and self employment.

Organization of labour market

Works agency

Employment contract (tasks, working time, pay, duties of employee, employer's powers)

The termination of the employment relationship: individual dismissal, collective dismissals

The safeguarding of employees's rights in the event of transfers of undertakings or business

Flexible employment contracts

Readings/Bibliography

F. Carinci, R. De Luca Tamajo, P. Tosi, T. Treu, Diritto del lavoro, 1, Il diritto sindacale, Utet, Torino, 2016. ONLY chapters: : 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12

F. Carinci, R. De Luca Tamajo, P. Tosi, T. Treu, Diritto del lavoro, 2, Il rapporto di lavoro subordinato, Utet, Torino, 2016. EXCLUDED chapters: 1, 10, 13, 14

Students who have attended the course can prepare the exam on the notes and on the materials presented during the lectures that are available in http://campus.unibo.it/.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The exam consists of an oral interview designed to assess the knowledge acquired by the student and his ability to critical reconstruction of the matter.

Office hours

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