75331 - Comparative Labour Law

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: IUS/07
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and management (cod. 9203)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and management (cod. 9203)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with a general knowledge of the individual employment relationship regulation and of the dynamics of industrial relations, comparing different legal systems and also referring to European Union Law and transnational rules. At the end of the course students will be able to: - understand the main forms of employees protection provided by the different legal system and the supranational regulative frame; - be aware of the principal legal issues related to industrial relations; - deal with employment relationships in an international context.

Course contents

- The Sources: Labour Law as a Multilevel Regulation

- The International and Supranational Sources of Labour Law

- EU Labour Law: the development of EU Social Policy

– Comparison among National Labour Laws: employment law (type of contracts, employment protection) and collective labour law (collective bargaining and collective actions)

Readings/Bibliography

- M. Finkin, G. Mundlack, Comparative Labor Law, Edward Elgar, 2015 - limited to chapters from 4 to 10 and, then, chapter 12 (NOTICE: the chapter 12 is excluded for students who attend the course)

- R. Blanpain (ed), Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies, Wolters Kluwer, 2014 - limited to chapters 6, 7 and 8 (NOTICE: the students who attend the classes are exempt from this book)

Teaching methods

Lectures and class discussions

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Power Point Presentations

Office hours

See the website of Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni