Public Sector Contracts and Careers

The Course, which combines a theoretical methodology with a practical approach, purports to provide the students with a more insightful knowledge of the rules governing the access to employment and the career advancements in the Health Organizations.
As to the Course content, after a brief introduction on the legal sources of work in the Health Organizations, the lectures will be grouped in two parts.
In the first part of the Course, which will be focused on standard work (permanent, full-time employment), the Students will deal with the following themes: access to work in the Health Organizations; job tasks and jobs description; job evaluation; economic and career advancements; incompatibility rules; working time; worker formation (especially in matter of health and safety); environmental quality and workplace harassments prevention; access and discipline of the managerial employment.
The second part of the Course will deal with the flexible employment arrangements (fixed-term contract; part-time work; agency work), with formation contract and with apprenticeship, with "accessory work", with remote working (telework and agile work), with Self-employment work.
A special attention will be devoted to the analysis of the most significant judicial cases concerning the course topics.
In particular, through the Course the students will be provided with:
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to the sources of work in Health Organizations;
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to the access to work in the Health Organizations;
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to jobs tasks and jobs description;
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to working time in the Health Organizations;
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to the rules in matter of incompatibility;
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to personnel evaluation as well as to career and economic progressions;
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to health and safety as well environment quality measures in the Health Organizations;
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to the access and to the discipline of managerial employment in the Health Organizations;
· notions, methods and legal instruments related to flexible work arrangements (fixed-term contract; part-time work; agency work; formation contract and apprenticeship; "accessory work"; remote working (telework and agile work); Self-employment.

Knowledge and Comprehension: in order to satisfactorily pass the exam, the students should be able to display the knowledge and comprehension of the legal institutions and instruments which are analyzed in the Course and which are designed to develop a career path in the Health Sector Organizations;
· Practical Skills: through the face-to-face lectures, through the individual or group presentations and through the class discussion, the students will develop their capacity to apply the legal rules to the practical scenarios. The mentioned capacity should be displayed by the students during the exam.
· Autonomy of Judgment: the students should display, during the exam, their individual critical positions in relation to the Course topics.
· Communication Skills: the students should display their capacity of argumentation their technical language skills in relation to the topic analyzed in the Course;
· Learning Skills: the students should display an adequate capacity to understand the rules in matter of contracts and careers in the health organizations, in order to be potentially able to conduct a further inquiry in the future on the topics analyzed in the Course.