GENERAL PART

The essential aim of the course, with regard to its general part, is to provide students with particularly in-depth knowledge and skills in the field of trade union law and individual labour relations, as well as with regard to the regulatory techniques and methodological tools of the subject. The aforementioned knowledge and skills enable students to fully grasp the fundamentals of workers' rights and, above all, how these rights can be concretely enjoyed and exercised, taking into account the peculiar complexity of the interests present in the employment relationship (especially those of the employer). Possession of the aforementioned skills proves to be essential in order to carry out with competence and balance the professional activities for which the course of study prepares (magistrate, lawyer, business legal consultant).

SPECIAL PART

Considering the peculiar relevance and topicality of the issue of the protection of workers' health and safety, also in view of the particular importance that this matter has in the research and so-called third mission activities of the Department of Law (Olympus Observatory), a specific part of the course will be devoted to illustrate the main issues of this discipline, with specific reference to Legislative Decree no. 81/2008, in order to grasp the peculiarities and problems of the application of the law in the field of health and safety at work, whose knowledge is becoming more and more essentials for labour law professionals.

GENERAL PART
A) Trade Union Law
Historical introduction - Labor law sources - Union freedom - Trade union organization - Trade union representation - Trade union activity in workplaces - Trade union participation - Types of collective agreements - Collective bargaining in private and public sector - The right to strike - Strike in essential services - The lockout.

B) Employment Relationship Law
Employment relationship - Special employment relationships - Employment contract - Employment services - The regulation of flexible work demand - Worker's obligations and employer's powers - Working time - Wage - Suspension of employment relationship - Subjective labour relations modifications - Anti-discrimination law - Individual dismissals - Social safety net - Collective redundancies - Worker’s rights guarantee.

SPECIAL PART
C) Health and Safety at Work

Analysis of the fundamentals of health and safety at work (Article 2087 of Civil Code; EC Directive n. 89/391; Articles 32 and 41 of Constitution; Legislative Decree n. 81, 8 April 2008).

- Elements of Private Law.
- Constitutional Law.

Knowledge and understanding

The law graduate who has passed the labor law exam has:

- full knowledge and comprehension of basic legal notions;

- detailed knowledge of Labour Law fundamentals, related to the international, European and Italian legislation;

- knowledge of judicial and extrajudicial settlement of labour disputes;

- ability to understand the purposes, contexts and consequences of Labour Law policies;

- ability to draft legal documents relating to employment law in negotiations, courts and out-of-court proceedings.

Applying knowledge and understanding

The law graduate who has passed the labor law exam has:

- The ability to apply the norms of the national, international and European Labour Law legal system;

- The ability in consulting databases and Labour Law sources and data related to the job market as well as to the health and safety at work. The acquisition of the above-mentioned requirements will be verified in the following way: exercises on law case studies; intermediate tests and final exams of each and every single subject’s course; internships’ evaluation and other relevant learning experiences.

Making judgments

The law graduate who has passed the labor law exam has:

The capability to interpret and investigate cases in order to identify, represent and solve issues related to the workers‘ rights protection. He will be able to solve inter-individual and collective labour disputes. He will be also able in writing clear and effective negotiating texts, legislative texts and procedural documents.

Communication skills

The law graduate who has passed the labor law exam has:

- the interpreting and communicating skills necessary to deal with professionals, potential clients and individuals about Labour Law issues. He is able to explain the logical and theoretical reasoning that lead him to the problem’s solution. He is convincing and confident when exposing arguments.

Learning Skills

The law graduate who has passed the labor law exam has:

- the capability of updating their knowledge and keeping up with the latest competences required in the Labour Law field. He understands the complexity of the legal phenomenons of this field; he is able to autonomously follow the evolution that nowadays characterises the Labour Law field (case law) and can focus on these themes using the knowledge acquired during this course of study.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

In order to support ongoing learning, students will be allowed to participate in self-assessment tests during the course of the lectures, as well as in activities that support reading the textbook and understanding social reality in legal terms.

Teaching

This course is based on lectures and active learning practices.

Lectures aim to provide students with theoretical basic knowledge through lectures supported by the professor with slides and internet. Internet shows the main websites about labour law (the legislation, public authorities, “social partners”) and allows to find documents such as newspaper articles about topical issues, judgments and collective agreements at both national and company levels. These agreements are analysed in order to know their structure and also as a common intersection for trade union law and individual employment relationship. More in general, web browsing will be an innovative tool to encourage students to debate with an interaction between lecture and active learning.

Active learning practices are aimed at developing skills for understanding and managing specific "critical situations" through the application of basic theoretical knowledge - concerning institutions of importance for professional purposes - to practical cases. Space will be given, in particular, to the discussion of jurisprudential cases, to the collective reflection on highly topical issues, taken from the media, including those related to the change in labor law in the digital age. Still in the context of the active learning practices, students will be urged to present to the class topics already covered in previous lessons or to anticipate topics to be covered in subsequent lessons, so as to be able to test their communication, synthesis and correct use skills of legal language. There will also be opportunities for in-depth study through group work on particularly current topics.

Innovative teaching methods

Frontal teaching will be complemented and contaminated by moments of active involvement of students with the use of innovative teaching practices: debate; problem-based learning; flipped classroom; case studies.

Attendance

For a better understanding, students are strongly encouraged to refresh their basic notions of private law regarding sources of law, associations, companies, businesses, obligations and contracts, as well as the basic notions of constitutional law.

Attending students should show up in class with a laptop or tablet for an easy consultation of the Normattiva web site, as well as with their course books.

Course books

GENERAL PART

Both for a) Trade Union Law and b) Employment Relations Law M.V. BALLESTRERO, G. DE SIMONE, Diritto del lavoro, Giappichelli, Torino, latest edition.

or, alternatively:

P. ALBI, Manuale di diritto del lavoro, Giuffrè, Milano, latest edition.

SPECIAL PART

c) with regard to health and safety at work P. PASCUCCI (a cura di), I principi fondamentali della tutela della salute e della sicurezza sul lavoro. Dall'art. 2087 c.c. al Titolo I del d.lgs. n. 81/2008, Giappichelli, Torino, latest edition.

In order to consult the sources of law, we suggest using an updated Code of Labor Law: recommended: M.T. CARINCI (ed.), Codice del lavoro, editio minor, Giuffrè, Milano, latest edition.

For OPTIONAL materials in English, please refer to the Blended Platform. In particular, under the English Documents section, FULL DOCUMENTS will be uploaded on one or more topical labour law topics AND IF YOU CAN CHOOSE ONE OR MORE depending on your interests or inclinations.

Assessment

The expected learning outcomes are assessed through an oral examination concerning topics discussed in the lessons and in the above-mentioned course books. The oral examination allows a comprehensive assessment of each student, in terms of his/her knowledge and, mainly, his/her practical, argument and critical thinking skills as well as his/her communication skills.

The examination consists of an oral discussion about 1-4 general and related to the main topics issues. This approach should show the student's level of knowledge. It will be assessed according to the following criteria: 1. Comprehensive knowledge of the contents; 2. Confidence in the subject and in its main concepts; 3. Reasoning and coordination skills of the different aspects of the labour law; 4. Ability to use knowledge in a critical and autonomous way; 5. Communication skills in terms of linguistic ability and the technical-legal vocabulary.

The score will be expressed in thirtieths according to the following value system:

Below 18/30 – insufficient level: the student does not achieve any of the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph;

·  18-20/30 – sufficient level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph;

·  21-20/30 – fully sufficient level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph and "Practise knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph;

·  24-26/30 – good level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, "Practise knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph and “Self-assessment” paragraph;

·  27-29/30 – very good level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, "Practise knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, “Self-assessment” paragraph and “Communication skills” paragraph;

·  30/30 cum laude: excellent level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, "Practise knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, “Self-assessment” paragraph, “Communication skills” paragraph and “Understanding skills” paragraph.

N.B. Only those students who assiduously attend the entire course are entitled to take an intermediate written test on Trade Union Law (a) during the week in which classes are suspended (3-8 November 2025). The test will consist of two open questions, to be answered by highlighting: 1. completeness of preparation; 2. logical and synthesis skills; 3. fluent and grammatically, as well as orthographically, correct writing. For the assessment of the test, the teacher will be based on these same criteria, considered in the light of the above-mentioned Learning Outcomes (Dublin Descriptors), and will consist of a mark formulated according to the above-mentioned scale.

For those who successfully pass this written test, the final examination will consist of an oral discussion only on topics relating to Employment Relationship Law (b) and Health and Safety at Work (c) in the light of the study texts indicated above. In any case, the student is free to make use or not of the outcome of the written test and will notify the examination board at the beginning of the final examination interview. For those who do not pass the written test or for those who, despite having passed it, have obtained a mark that does not satisfy them, the final examination will consist of an oral discussion on the entire programme (a, b, c).

In any case, the students may avail themselves of the results of the written test exclusively within and no later than the academic year.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

The lecturer is available, by appointment, to agree on methods of coaching and ongoing (on-line) support for non-attending students, such as special on-line meetings, in view of preparing for the final exam.

Course books

GENERAL PART

Both for a) Trade Union Law and b) Employment Relations Law M.V. BALLESTRERO, G. DE SIMONE, Diritto del lavoro, Giappichelli, Torino, latest edition.

or, alternatively:

P. ALBI, Manuale di diritto del lavoro, Giuffrè, Milano, latest edition.

SPECIAL PART

c) with regard to health and safety at work P. PASCUCCI (a cura di), I principi fondamentali della tutela della salute e della sicurezza sul lavoro. Dall'art. 2087 c.c. al Titolo I del d.lgs. n. 81/2008, Giappichelli, Torino, latest edition.

In order to consult the sources of law, we suggest using an updated Code of Labor Law: recommended: M.T. CARINCI (ed.), Codice del lavoro, editio minor, Giuffrè, Milano, latest edition.

For OPTIONAL materials in English, please refer to the Blended Platform. In particular, under the English Documents section, FULL DOCUMENTS will be uploaded on one or more topical labour law topics AND IF YOU CAN CHOOSE ONE OR MORE depending on your interests or inclinations.

Assessment

The expected learning outcomes are assessed through an oral examination concerning topics discussed in the lessons and in the above-mentioned course books. The oral examination allows a comprehensive assessment of each student, in terms of his/her knowledge and, mainly, his/her practical, argument and critical thinking skills as well as his/her communication skills.

The examination consists of an oral discussion about 1-4 general and related to the main topics issues. This approach should show the student's level of knowledge. It will be assessed according to the following criteria: 1. Comprehensive knowledge of the contents; 2. Confidence in the subject and in its main concepts; 3. Reasoning and coordination skills of the different aspects of the labour law; 4. Ability to use knowledge in a critical and autonomous way; 5. Communication skills in terms of linguistic ability and the technical-legal vocabulary.

The score will be expressed in thirtieths according to the following value system:

Below 18/30 – insufficient level: the student does not achieve any of the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph;

·  18-20/30 – sufficient level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph;

·  21-20/30 – fully sufficient level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph and "Practise knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph;

·  24-26/30 – good level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, "Practise knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph and “Self-assessment” paragraph;

·  27-29/30 – very good level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, "Practise knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, “Self-assessment” paragraph and “Communication skills” paragraph;

·  30/30 cum laude: excellent level: the student achieves the learning outcomes included in the "Knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, "Practise knowledge and understanding skills" paragraph, “Self-assessment” paragraph, “Communication skills” paragraph and “Understanding skills” paragraph.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

* The royalties of the course book sub c) are entirely devolved to the research activity of Olympus, Observatory for the permanent monitoring of health and safety at work's legislation and jurisprudence..

** Olympus is hosted by the Department of Law - University of Urbino and carries out many activities, such as:

-  a website including a database with regard to the legislation and case law in the field of health and safety at work;

-  articles, specialist reviews and thematic "focus";

-  an on-line scientific journal – Diritto della sicurezza del lavoro (DSL) (Class A, Area 12, according to the criteria developed by ANVUR) – on health and safety at work;

-  the organization of international conferences, seminars and workshops.

Olympus, whose website is freely accessible as a public service, allows students of the program to find materials and documentation useful for their studies and for writing their degree theses. It also offers, through the aforementioned conferences, seminars and workshops, the proceedings of which are published on the website, the opportunity to engage with leading experts in the field and to thoroughly analyze the most sensitive issues related to it: https://olympus.uniurb.it/.