EUROPEAN LABOUR LAW

Knowledge and comprehension

The course aims to supply a complete knowledge of European labour law. Particularly, the course will concern: evolution of European treaties; development of european social law; development of EU Secondary labour Law; evolution of social rights; relationship between social rights and economic freedom; European Charter of Fundamental Rights; European employment policy, Open Method of Coordination; social dialogue; employees involvement

Skills

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 undestand fundamental principles of social law and labour market.

Lessons with the use of Power Point slides. Group analysis of the cases-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

The course will focus on the analysis of the process of social integration in the EU and, in particular: the evolution of the Treaties; the development of secondary sources of EU Labour law; the evolution of fundamental social rights and their relationship with economic freedoms; the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; the effects of EU social law sources on Italian Labour law.

The following topics will be analysed: rules on individual employment relationships, with particular regard to equality and non discrimination, restructuring of enterprises, atypical work, free movement of workers. The process of Europeanisation of trade union relations and, in particular, social dialogue and European collective bargaining will also subject of study.

All these topics will be analysed through the study of the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

M. ROCCELLA - T. TREU, Diritto del lavoro dell’Unione europea, eighth edition, Cedam, 2019, (forthcoming by October 2019; with the exclusion of: par. 8, 8.1 del cap. III; capp. IV, VI, IX, XI, XII, par. 11 del cap. XIV)