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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
The following are preferential, non-binding pre-requisites: knowledge of national labour law, public law and European Union law.
Objectives Contents The course illustrates the main sources of international and EU labour law: the ILO conventions and the mechanism for supervising and monitoring their implementation, the difference between hard and soft law sources, the UN Guiding Principles on Multinational Enterprises and Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter and the Nice Charter and their jurisprudential application, European social law in primary sources and directives: in part. the acquis communautaire and the new directives on the minimum wage, digital platform workers and human rights due diligence, European social dialogue at interprofessional, sectoral and multinational enterprise level, and global framework agreements. Part of the course (in English) will be devoted to the platform economy, privacy, AI (particularly discussion of the EU’s draft AI Act), and the digitalisation of work
Extended Syllabus The sources of international labour law, the ILO and the supervisory and monitoring mechanism, hard law and soft law, European social law: fundamental rights, EU competence in social matters, the acquis social communautaire, social dialogue, transnational collective bargaining.
Recommended Bibliography ROCCELLA-TREU-AIMO-IZZI, Diritto del lavoro dell’Unione europea, Kluwer-Cedam, Milano, 2019 e PERULLI-BRINO, Manuale di diritto internazionale del lavoro, Giappichelli, Torino, 2015 supplemented by materials and case-studies discussed in class and uploaded on the course page, including articles and decisions discussed with the visiting professor David Mangan.
Methods of Provision Teaching Methods The teaching method is based on a continuous interaction between the professor and students, in which lectures by the professor in charge and/or the visiting professor host of the course are combined with presentations and case discussions (supranational court rulings, transnational collective agreements, analysis and monitoring reports and papers, etc.).
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Learning is tested by means of an oral examination, consisting of 3-4 questions on the various parts of the syllabus, aimed at verifying the knowledge acquired, the ability to present and connect the various institutes, and the technical ownership of the language used. Efforts to carry out and present individual or group research during the lectures are taken into account for merit assessment purposes.
Contacts/More Information The teacher holds receptions for students at the times communicated at the beginning of the course. She answers to students via her e-mail address: fausta.guarriello@unich.it
