Trade Union Law

A.Y. 2024/2025
6
Max ECTS
40
Overall hours
SSD
IUS/07
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The teaching of Trade Union Law is part of Lam's training path, aiming at the knowledge of the principles and legal norms governing the system of collective industrial relations, both at the macro-regulatory level and at the company level, for the training of experts and operators of the companies in the field of labor and trade union management, as well as within the associations and exponential bodies of economic operators that deal with the regulation of labour.
The course also aims at acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to know how to maintain an adequate update on the evolution of the regulatory framework over time.
Expected learning outcomes
The expected learning outcomes are the knowledge and understanding of the principles and laws that govern labour and industrial relations; as well as the ability to apply the knowledge learned through the concrete framing of individual cases within the general system of rules, including the identification of the rules applicable to the specific case-law examined, through a correct application in the legal field of the techniques of problem solving. Students will also learn to express autonomous assessments on the regulatory system and on the effects that the rules have on the concrete dynamics of labour and work in the workplace. They will learn how to work in groups through activities carried out both in the classroom and independently , with the aim to developing interpersonal and communication skills.
Single course

This course can be attended as a single course.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Lesson period
Third trimester
Course syllabus
The historical evolution from the coming into being of trade union law to the corporatist system - Trade unione organisation in the Constitution - Trade union representation and representativeness - Trade union rights in the workplace - Collective agreement: effectiveness and relationships between agreements of different levels; collective agreements at the plant level - The governance of relationships between the social partners: social dialogue and intersectoral collective agreements regulating the collective bargaining structure, the relationship between law and collective bargaining, concessive collective bargaining -The right to strike and the strike in public essential services; lock-outs - Trade union law in public employment: brief remarks.
Prerequisites for admission
The exam of private, public and EU Law is preparatory.
Teaching methods
Lessons with PPT, problem based learning. Lectures are integrated with two mock examinations (mid-term and final) which are aimed to help them evaluate themselves, revise the programme, and prepare the final exam.
Teaching Resources
A) For students attending lectures: MAGNANI, Diritto sindacale, Giappichelli, last edition; Power point and other documents downloaded on ariel;
B) For student not attending lectures: CARINCI, DE LUCA TAMAJO, TOSI, TREU, Diritto del lavoro. 1. Il diritto sindacale, Utet, Torino, last edition; Power point and other documents downloaded on ariel
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam is in written form and consists of two parts. The first part aims at verifying the knowledge of the entire program of the course and is composed of multiple choice questions with a single correct answer. The second part aims at verifying the quality of learning through three open questions. In two questions the student is asked to deepen one of the main topics of the course; the third question could aim at verifying the ability to apply the knowledge acquired and the autonomy of judgment through the analysis of a specific case law: the student is asked to expose the legal framework and the legal positions of the various subjects involved in the case.
Cross questions are awarded 1 point for each exact answer; the open questions are awarded from 1 to 6 points, with joint application of the criteria of completeness of the discussion, the ability to master the case and the property of language.
IUS/07 - LABOUR LAW - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor: Sartori Alessandra
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Sartori Alessandra
Professor(s)
Reception:
By appointment per e-mail
Room 12, second floor, Department of Social and Political Sciences