DIRITTO DEL LAVORO E SOCIETA' DELLE RETI

The course will be primarily aimed at outlining the broader framework within which the regulation of labour relations arises. It will be necessary for this purpose, to provide students with the information necessary to understand how Labour law is the result of a series of regulatory influences that cannot be limited to legislation and even less to the civil code rules and principles. The traditional complexity of labour law sources’ system that - which cannot be separated from the study of trade union rights - has been further enhanced in recent decades, attracting labour law in a perspective that goes beyond the regulation of employment relationships to include the regulation of the labour market, the welfare state and the public sector employment, now entirely privatized.

Once this broader context has been sketched out, it will be essential to provide students with the knowledge of the fundamental institutions of labour law: the encounter between supply and demand in the labour market; the evolution of the notion of subordination; the typological fragmentation of the labour contracts; pay; working time, the personal rights of workers and the employers' prerogatives; the termination of the employment relationship; the freedom of association; trade union representation and collective rights of workers in the working place, the legal value of collective agreements and the collective bargaining system; the right to strike, and the regulation of industrial action in the essential public services.

Lectures, equivalent teaching activities with the support of audiovisual tools (thematic analysis with slides projections, films and debates).

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 be primarily aimed at outlining the broader framework within which the regulation of labour relations arises. It will be necessary for this purpose, to provide students with the information necessary to understand how Labour law is the result of a series of regulatory influences that cannot be limited to legislation and even less to the civil code rules and principles. The traditional complexity of labour law sources’ system that - which cannot be separated from the study of trade union rights - has been further enhanced in recent decades, attracting labour law in a perspective that goes beyond the regulation of employment relationships to include the regulation of the labour market, the welfare state and the public sector employment, now entirely privatized.

Once this broader context has been sketched out, it will be essential to provide students with the knowledge of the fundamental institutions of labour law: the encounter between supply and demand in the labour market; the evolution of the notion of subordination; the typological fragmentation of the labour contracts; pay; working time, the personal rights of workers and the employers' prerogatives; the termination of the employment relationship; the freedom of association; trade union representation and collective rights of workers in the working place, the legal value of collective agreements and the collective bargaining system.

Esposito, Gaeta, Zoppoli, Zoppoli, Diritto del lavoro e sindacale, Giappichelli, 2023