European Labour Law

Knowledge and comprehension
The course aims to offer an overall frame of the EU social law and policy’s evolution through the years, essentially focusing on the changing role of social rights within the internal market building process. After such a general introduction, specific attention will be given to some of the main topics currently debated on a European scale: The application of the European Charter of Fundamental rights in the ECJ case law; Freedom of movement of workers and jobseekers; Anti-discrimination law; Transfer of undertakings; Fixed term contracts; Voluntary and involuntary part time; Posting of workers and freedom to provide services; European social dialogue; Collective redundancies; European Works Councils
Ability to turn knowledge and comprehension into practice
At the end of the course, students will gain understanding of European social law and an advanced knowledge both in national and European labour law. These competencies are really necessaries in globalised economic systems to understand fundamental principles of social law and labour market.
Autonomous evaluation capabilities
During the lessons, a didactic method will be constantly used to explain the different politics of law options underlying the social legislation and the Court of Justice case-law, in order to improve the students’ capacities towards a critical learning of the different regulatory choices intertwined in the field of Labour law.
Learning ability
Periodic self-assessment tests will be carried out in class, through which the students' on-going learning rate will be checked with respect to the topics previously treated
Communication skills
The course aims to increase the student's ability to communicate and transfer the concepts learned. To this end, active participation is encouraged, by prompting students to raise questions or to report about the topics dealt with in the course of the lessons.