- Docente: Leonardo Battista
- Credits: 6
- SSD: IUS/07
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Management and Economics (cod. 5892)
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from Feb 13, 2025 to May 22, 2025
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide students with a general knowledge of the main models of industrial relations, with a peculiar emphasis on the Italian one. At the end of the course students are able to: (a) understand the evolution and the present development of industrial relations in Italy and in other European Union countries; (b) understand the main issues related to collective bargaining and trade unions’ rights.
Course contents
- What industrial relations are about - theories and methods
- The relationship between industrial relations and the law
- The Actors of the system of industrial relations: trade unions, employers' associations, the State (and beyond?)
- The function and the functioning of collective bargaining
- The industrial actions
- The industrial relations within the legal system of the EU
- The industrial relations at international and global level
- The legal institutions of industrial relations in Europe
- European Works Council
- Digitalization and industrial relations: a matter of social dialogue?
- European Labour Authority and Social Dialogue
Readings/Bibliography
The book is compulsory both for attending and non-attending students.
Beryl ter Haar, Attila Kun, EU Collective Labour Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
The book is available at the Ruffilli Library.
Students can buy the e-book version.
Excluded chapters:
6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27.
Teaching methods
Lectures, experts seminars, group work
Lectures and class discussions. Students will be asked to participate in class debates. During the course, students will be divided in groups for some group work. Students will present their work during the last lecture.
Assessment methods
Written tests, based on a combination of multiple-choice and open questions. The exam duration is 90 minutes.
Grading system (0-30 scale):
<18: fail.
18-19: fair.
20-23: more than enough.
24-26: good.
27-30: very good/excellent.
30 cum laude/with honor.
Solid command of legal English is considered a "plus".
From 0 to 1 point will be added for the working group.
Teaching tools
Teaching materials, PowerPoint presentations, readings, Courts decisions, will be uploaded in the institutional platform (at: iol.unibo.it), in an open sources format
Office hours
See the website of Leonardo Battista
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.