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2020/2021

Professional Social Security and Company Pension Plan Management

Code: 42136 ECTS Credits: 10
Degree Type Year Semester
4313301 Social and Employment Rights OB 0 1
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Carolina Gala Durán
Email:
Carolina.Gala@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)

Teachers

Jorge Perez Perez
David Gutierrez Colominas
Miguel Angel Purcalla Bonilla

Prerequisites

No pre-requisites

Objectives and Contextualisation

The subject aims to provide a practical, critical and detailed approach to current issues in the field of social security and social protection.  In this respect, the selection of the topics covered in the module is based on a threefold criterion. On the one hand, subjects subject to recent reform are selected in order to provide students with an update on the most important aspects of the changes made to the legal system.  Secondly, emphasis is also placed on subjects that have received little attention in undergraduate programmes and which normally show a certain complexity, which makes them more suitable for the Master's programme. Finally, some sessions deal with issues that are usually dealt with at the grade level with the aim of offering a perspective of jurisprudential updating from an eminently practical point of view.

Competences

  • Apply systems, media and technologies for obtaining and providing information in one's profession or research.
  • Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  • Interpret the broad currents of ongoing change in the social security system, including the different complementary systems and the regulation of their transnational dimension.
  • Look for new areas to open up within the field.
  • Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply advanced IT programmes associated with the social security system.
  2. Apply systems, media and technologies for obtaining and providing information in one's profession or research.
  3. Apply, in a particular context, the laws on pension plans within the employment system, voluntary improvements and collective insurance contracts.
  4. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  5. Correctly document the management of social security benefits.
  6. Formulate reasonable hypotheses on the integration of the social security system and the systems of the different autonomous communities.
  7. Identify and analyse business-owners' different control mechanisms regarding social security.
  8. Identify the different complementary social protection mechanisms that are applicable in a company or in public administration.
  9. Look for new areas to open up within the field.
  10. Resolve issues related to the movements of workers and their families in the European Union, regarding access to social security protection.
  11. Resolve practical issues related to business-owners' responsibility regarding social security.
  12. Resolve practical issues related to the management and application of the social security system.
  13. Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.

Content

Previous note: the following are the contents that are expected to be dealt with in 2018/2019 in the Social Security module. The contents are indicated following the order marked by the General Law of Social Security and by the manual, order that may be modified in the schedule. At the beginning of the course, a schedule will be provided on the virtual campus with the date, subject and teacher/s responsible for the session for each session.

SCHEDULED CONTENT:
General structure of the social security system and subjective scope
Contribution and collection. Practical problems
Accidents at work and occupational diseases
Latest reforms on temporary incapacity
Permanent disability. Incidence on work
Retirement. Incidence on work
Practical questions on unemployment protection
Death and survivors' benefits.

Methodology

The methodology is based, on the one hand, on the carrying out of directed activities that will have the supervision and support of the classroom teacher, which will be based on the exposition of the subjects in the classroom, as well as on the discussion of practical assumptions that will be proposed to the students.  The reduced number of students in the classroom allows a dynamic exchange in this type of activities.
Likewise, the directed activities will be complemented with supervised activities that will entail the carrying out in the classroom of small evaluation activities or practical assumptions in the classroom.
Finally, autonomous activities constitute an important section in the development of learning, especially in the master's degree, in which the maturity of the student undoubtedly allows for greater solvency and use of autonomous activities. The autonomous activities are carried out outside the classroom, without the supervision of the teacher and will involve the following activities: a) reading and analysis of texts (articles, documents, case law) for the preparation of the exam and for the carrying out of practical assumptions; b) writing of practical assumptions and c) study of the subject aimed at passing the exam.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Master Class 4 0.16 5, 6, 8, 7, 12, 10, 13
Master Class 36 1.44 5, 6, 8, 7, 12, 10, 13
Practical activities 20 0.8 1, 3, 5, 12, 11, 10
Type: Supervised      
Evaluation 3 0.12 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7, 9, 4, 12, 11, 10, 13
Resolving case studies and drafting legal documents 17 0.68 2, 3, 5, 8, 7, 12, 11, 10
Search and analysis of legal documentation (case law, regulations, administrative rulings, collective agreements...) 10 0.4 1, 2, 5, 7, 4, 13
Searching and reading bibliography 10 0.4 6, 8, 7, 9, 4
Type: Autonomous      
Elaboration of schemes 20 0.8 1, 2, 5, 8, 7, 9, 4, 10, 13
Searching and reading bibliography 40 1.6 1, 2, 5, 8, 7, 9, 4, 10, 13
Study 90 3.6 8, 7, 4, 12, 13

Assessment

The evaluation will be based on continuous evaluation activities, attendance and a final test or examination.
As far as ongoing evaluation activities are concerned, these will be of a short format and will be developed within the framework of the practical activities. They will consist of the resolution of practical cases and/or questionnaires and their subsequent oral or written presentation. There will be a minimum of four and a maximum of six evaluation activities, which together will have a value of 45 per cent of the grade.
Attendance is also subject to assessment, always bearing in mind that attendance will be required for no less than 80 per cent of the sessions in each module. Within this margin, a slight penalty is foreseen in the final grade, which will depend on the student's absences. In this sense, it is understood that the master's teaching character, the limited number of students and the teaching dynamics contribute to this importance of the most complete attendance possible to the programmed sessions. Class attendance will have a maximum value of 15 per cent of the grade.
The final exam will result in a grade of 40 per cent of the grade.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Class attendance 15% 0 0 1, 6, 8, 7, 4, 13
Development of case studies and other activities 35% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 4, 12, 11, 10
Final examination 50% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 7, 9, 4, 12, 11, 10, 13

Bibliography

BLASCO LAHOZ, Francisco; LÓPEZ GANDÍA, Juan y MOMPARLER CARRASCO, María A.: Curso Básico de Seguridad Social, València, Tirant lo Blanch, ültima edición

GORELLI HERNÁNDEZ, Juan (y otros): Lecciones de Seguridad Social, Madrid, Tecnos, última edición

MONERÉO PÉREZ, José Luis y otros: Manual de Seguridad Social, Madrid, Tecnos, última edición