Trade Union Law II (21786)

2014-2015

Year: 2nd
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 4
Student hours: 100

Syllabus

This course aims to study collective rights to strike and collective bargaining. The course takes a multi-level approach, studying transnational regulations but concentrating especially on the sphere of national regulations from a context marked by globalisation. The course also deals with the increasingly common self-regulation mechanisms and social corporate responsibility strategies employed by firms, whose functions and effects differ according to the legal environment in which they operates. Self-regulation mechanisms pose many challenges for employment law, both from the point of view of the formulating of rights and of checks on whether or not firms comply with social rights, and special emphasis is placed on their interaction with legislation in force in countries where multinational companies operate. The topics of corporate social responsibility and, within this, codes of conduct, are studied with the aim of familiarising students with this increasingly common instrument.

Topic 1.-  Collective rights, collective self-protection and transnational regulations.

Topic 2.-  Collective rights and the constitutional framework.

Topic 3.- The right to strike and deployment regulation.

Topic 4.-  Alternative forms of conflict resolution.

Topic 5.- The right to collective bargaining in the Workers' Statute

Topic 6.-  Collective bargaining and the forms of self-regulation of social rights in companies.

Topic 7.-  Contents of corporate social responsibility: rights in the workplace (I).

Topic 8.-  Contents of corporate social responsibility in interaction with society(II).

Topic 9.- Codes of conduct as a self-regulation instrument.

Topic 10.- Monitoring and external checks on corporate social responsibility.