00224 - Employment Law

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Moduli: Andrea Lassandari (Modulo 1) Federico Martelloni (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 9233)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to analyse dependent employment contracts and industrial relations in Italian labour law.

Course contents

The course will be focused on the following issues.

- Labour and labour market in the Italian Constitution and in EU Treaties.

- Administrative organisation and government intervention in the labour market; employment and temporary work agencies.

- Trade unions and trade unions' rights (trade unions' organization; trade unions' rights in the Constitution and in the workplace).

- Collective bargaining and collective agreements (collective bargaining rules and structure; the agreements of July 1993 and January 2014; models, levels and scope of application of collective agreements).

- Collective conflict and anti-trade union behaviour (strike and lock-out; strike in public services; Article 28 of the Statuto dei lavoratori).

- Dependent employment and quasi-salaried work.

- The law of dependent employment contracts. Labour law in public administrations; contract's  invalidity; discriminations prohibitions; the job performance: offices qualifications and categories; worker's duties of diligence, obedience and fidelity; employer's powers; place and working time; employer's duty of remuneration; worker's protection; cases of suspension and lay - off; unfair dismissal and collective redundancies; guarantee of worker's rights .

- Undertaking's changes and labour law: transfer of undertakings, groups of undertakings, protection against employer's insolvency.

The lessons of Professor Federico Martelloni will be focused on atypical forms of employment.

Readings/Bibliography

The students will prepare the examination,

- for the law of the employment relationship:

on one of the handbooks here recommended, with a free choice (latest ed.):

F. Carinci, R. De Luca Tamajo, P. Tosi, T. Treu, Diritto del lavoro, II, Il rapporto di lavoro subordinato, Utet;

O. Mazzotta, Diritto del lavoro, Giuffrè;

M. Roccella, Manuale di diritto del lavoro, a cura di D. Gottardi e F. Guarriello, Giappichelli.

- for the collective relations:

on one of the handbooks here recommended, with a free choice (latest ed.):

M. V. Ballestrero, Diritto sindacale, Giappichelli;

F. Carinci, R. De Luca Tamajo, P. Tosi, T. Treu, Diritto del lavoro, I, Diritto sindacale, quinta edizione, Utet;

G. Giugni, Diritto sindacale, Cacucci.

- for the EU labour law:

on one of the handbooks here reccomended, with a free choice (latest ed.):

M. Roccella, T. Treu, Diritto del lavoro dell'Unione  europea, Cedam, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and other two chapters, with a free choice between 5, 7, 8, 9, 10;

F. Carinci, A. Pizzoferrato, Diritto del lavoro dell'Unione europea, Giappichelli, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and other two chapters, with a free choice between 5, 6, 7, 8.

The students have to consult a national collective agreement too: it is possible to find collective agreements in:

http://www.cnel.it/archivio/contratti-lavoro/BDCL.asp

http://www.aranagenzia.it/

Reductions of the program are granted to students attending the lessons.

Teaching methods

The Professor will lead the course, but students' intervention or working papers will be appreciated

Assessment methods

At the end of the course there will be an oral examination, about labour and industrial relations law.

It is also possible to arrange a personalised programme with the teacher, in order to focus the examination on a specific working paper realised by the student.

It's possible to attend the examination only for the students that have passed Diritto privato and Diritto costituzionale examinations.

Teaching tools

Students with disabilities shall inform the teachers of their specific needs, so as to be properly addressed.

Erasmus students might agree upon special arrangement to facilitate their work with the teachers.

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Lassandari

See the website of Federico Martelloni