International regulations and European Community Social Law
Code: 100494 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500258 Labour Relations | OB | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jaume Munich Gasa
- Email:
- jaume.munich@uab.cat
Teachers
- (External) Alberto Moreno Solé
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
Is good to have a good knowledge of of the subjects of the first course.
The teaching of the subject will be taught taking into account the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The aim of the subject International norms and European Union Social Law is to have basic notions on the sources of Public International Law, of the International Labour Organization and of the European Union Social law.
Competences
- Advising union and business organizations and their members.
- Applying the information and communication technologies to the different areas of action.
- Carrying out representation and negotiation roles in several fields of the industrial relations.
- Clearly expressing ideas or facts in a compelling way.
- Consulting and managing in terms of employment and labour recruitment.
- Drawing up and formalising reports and documents.
- Preparing, drawing up and formalising the general written documents in administrative and judicial processes.
- Self-motivating by undertaking specific training programs to acquire new knowledge.
- Students must be capable of deciding, sharply taking decisions and judging.
- Students must be capable of persuading others to agree with their point of view.
- Technically representing the people or entities of the administrative, fiscal, and procedural fields, and also of defence in labour courts.
- Verbally communicating and defending a project.
- Working autonomously.
- Working effectively in teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Acting as a negotiator in a collective bargaining presented as a practical work.
- Applying and using in teaching practice the mechanisms of the collective agreements.
- Applying the information and communication technologies to the different areas of action.
- Assessing the benefits of the extrajudicial systems of conflict solution in the procedural practice.
- Classifying the basic institutions of employee representation in a company.
- Clearly expressing ideas or facts in a compelling way.
- Drawing up and formalising reports and documents.
- Explaining the methods of job placement and intermediation in the labour market.
- Recognising the different measures that form the industrial dispute.
- Self-motivating by undertaking specific training programs to acquire new knowledge.
- Students must be capable of deciding, sharply taking decisions and judging.
- Students must be capable of persuading others to agree with their point of view.
- Understanding the meaning and proceedings of every formality and the means of challenge of every assumption.
- Verbally communicating and defending a project.
- Working autonomously.
- Working effectively in teams.
Content
BLOCK I.
Lesson 1. The subjects of public international law (PIL): the International Organizations (IO).
Introduction. Concept of IO and differences with other international actors. The international subjectivity of the IO. The competences of the IO. The institucionalization of international society: special reference to the role of the United Nations System.
Lesson 2. Concept, characteristics and principles of PIL.
Concept and characteristics of the PIL as a legal system of the international society. Structural principles of the PIL: sovereign equality, non-intervention, good faith, peaceful settlement of disputes, prohibition of resorting to the threat or the use of force, assistance to the United Nations (UN), UN authority over non-member States, cooperate among them, respect for human rights, and self-determination of peoples.
Lesson 3. The process of formation of norms in PIL.
The sources of the PIL. Treaty concept. The celebration of treaties. The role of other sources and mechanisms of the PIL: custom, GPL, equity, jurisprudence, doctrine, unilateral acts of States, and regulatory acts of the IO (internal normative function and external regulatory function). Soft law. The interaction between formal sources and coadjuvant mechanisms for the creation of norms.
Lesson 4. The process of applying the rules in PIL.
The reception and hierarchy in domestic law of the general IL, conventional and the normative acts of the IO. The appplication of PIL by internal organs. International mechanisms to enforce compliance with the international obligations of States: monitoring techniques, international control, self-restraint or countermeasures, and international sanctions or institutionalized procedures (social sanctions, disciplinary power and the power of coercion of Chapters VII and VIII of the Charter). The practice of the UN and other international mechanisms.
Lesson 5. General aspectsof the International Labor Organization (ILO) and its normative action.
Origin and characteristics of the ILO. Evolution of the ILO: special reference to the Philadelphia Declaration of May 10, 1944. The purposes of the ILO. Organizational structure of the ILO: the principle of tripartism and the functions of the different organs (International Labor Conference, Board of Directors and the International Labor Office). The capacity of the ILO to conclude international treaties. The ILO's powers to adopt conventions, recommendations and resolutions.
Lesson 6. Application and control of the ILO's regulatory framework.
The effects of international labor agreements. The review, suspension and denunciation of the conventions. The system of ordinary supervision: the role of the Committee of Experts on the application of conventions and recommendations. Special claim and complaint procedures. The institutionalized reaction within the ILO.
Lesson 7. The institutions and competences of the European Union (EU).
The process of European integration. The institutional system of the EU (Council, European Council, EP, Commission, CJEU, ECB, Court of Auditors, Committee of the Regions, Economic and Social Committee, and Ombudsman) and decision making. The distribution of competences between the EU and the Member States.
Lesson 8. The law of the EU and its application.
The sources of the legal system of the EU: primary law, non-written law (custom and GPL), law resulting from the international obligations of the EU and derivative law (typical and atypical acts). Jurisprudence and doctrine. The guiding principles (immediate applicability, direct effect, primacy, etc.) of the relations between the law of the EU and the internal rights. Control mechanisms (jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional) andcollaboration for the fulfillment of EU law.
BLOCK II.
Lesson 9. The European construction and its social dimension.
Evolution of European social law since 1957. Community social policy after the reform of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Treaty of Nice. The contributions of the Lisbon Treaty.
Lesson 10. Evolution of social objectives and their community legal instrumentation.
The European Social Agenda. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.
Lesson 11. The internal market. The free movement of workers. The right of establishment and the freedom to provide services.
The notion of a worker. Scope of application of free movement. The rights linked to the free movement of workers and the principle of non-discrimination: a) displacement and residence; b) Access to employment; c) Working conditions; d) Permanence in the country of work after the cessation of work activity. The various ways of carrying out the free provision of services and their normative jurisprudential evolution.
Lesson 12. Non-discrimination of gender and other discriminatory aspects in the field of the European Union.
Equal pay for men and women: scope of equality and remuneration notions. Equality in relation to access to employment, vocational training and working conditions. Measures to promote equal opportunities for women. Evolution of the right to equal treatment. The principle of non-discrimination.
Lesson 13. The health and safety of workers in the field of the European Union. Work time.
A) health and safety of workers; b) working time c) working conditions
Lesson 14. Temporary and part-time contracts within the European Union.
Non-discriminatory directives and prohibition of abuse within the European Union
Lesson 15.-Transmission of company
The contributions of the European Directive and Community case law in the field of the European Union.
Lesson 16. From the Lisbon Strategy to the 2020 Strategy.
The European employment strategy. Community guidelines and national employment plans. Economic, social and territorial cohesion. Regional policy and structural funds. The European Social Fund: objectives and actions.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| CASE STUDY RESOLUTION | 22.5 | 0.9 | 2, 3, 14, 12, 6, 7, 11, 15, 16 |
| MASTER CLASSES | 22.5 | 0.9 | 1, 10, 5, 11 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Case study preparation | 40 | 1.6 | 13, 7, 15, 4 |
| RECENSIONS | 10 | 0.4 | 3, 10, 8, 15 |
| STUDY | 50 | 2 | 10, 6, 7, 15, 4 |
Directed activities:
- Master classes: taught by the teacher.
- Case study resolution: each teacher at the begining of the course will explain their system.
Autonomous activities (case study prepartion, recensions, and study): each teacher in the classroom (and virtual campus) will explain how to prepare autonomously the contents of the course.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 CASES STUDY EVALUABLE | 40 | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 12, 6, 7, 11, 16, 4 |
| EXAM OF CONTENTS | 50 | 5 | 0.2 | 10, 5, 13, 12, 8, 6, 9, 7, 15, 4 |
| RECENSION | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3, 10, 6, 7 |
EVALUATION
Assessment model: the evaluation is continued and aims to enable the teaching staff to determine the degree of achievement of the competences.
Students will be assessable as long as they have completed a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade for the subject. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this threshold, the teacher of the subject may consider the student as not assessable.
EVALUATION BLOCK I
The evaluable practical activities carried out throughout the course will account for 30% of the final grade. These activities will consist of a) two evaluable practices (20%) and b) a review (10%).
Continuous evaluation of content examinations: two examinations will be made related to the contents of the subject's program, where each will be worth 35% of the final grade. To approve Block I, the average mark of the two exams must be equal to or greater than 5.
Re-evaluation of Block I
Only there is a reassessment of the examinations of contents and only students can present themselves if in the continuous assessment exams have obtained a mark average equal to or greater than 3.
EVALUATION BLOCK II
The practical activities that can be evaluated throughout the course will represent 50% of the final mark.
Continuous evaluation of contents of the program will be 50% of the final mark.
The final mark of the continuous evaluation will be obtained by calculating the average mark of the final exam (50%) and practices (50%). Block II is approved for students who obtain a mark equal to or greater than 5 and the final exam grade is equal to or greater than 3.5.
Re-evaluation of Block II
Only there is a reassessment of the contents examination and only those students who have obtained a score equal to or greater than 3 in the continuous assessment exam have the right to present. Block II will be approved for students who obtain a median mark of theexam of reassessment and of practices equal to or greater than 5 and the grade of the reassessment examination is equal to or greater than 3.5.
FINAL NOTE OF THE SUBJECT
Each block must be approved separately to pass the subject. The final mark of the subject will be the average note of the two Blogs.
SINGLE ASSESSMENT: The single assessment consists of a 20-question exam worth 50% and two practicals each worth 25%.
The same criteria will be applied to the re-evaluation.
IMPORTANT NOTE (Block I and Block II):
Students who copy totally or partially practices, reviews, papers, exams, etc. will be qualified with a 0 (zero) final mark of the subject.
The simple possession in the examinations of a cell phone or any other electronic instrument is presumed that the student is copying.
Students who plagiarize practices, reviews, jobs, etc. will be qualified with a 0 (zero) final mark of the subject.
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ESSENTIAL TEXTS
- ANDRES, P.,Legislación bàsica de derecho internacional público, 23ª ed., Tecnos, 2023.
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- TORRES, N., Derecho internacional público. Instrumentos normativos, 2ª ed., Tirant lo Blanch, 2017.
- ILOLEX.
Software
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Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 51 | Catalan | second semester | afternoon |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 51 | Catalan | second semester | afternoon |