Labour Law

Aim

On completion of the course, the student should be able to - account for how legal rules, collective bargaining agreements and personal employment contracts interact and together give the labour law field its distinctive features, - account for the contents of the central labour law regulations, where both legislated rules and principles that have been developed in the labour court and the legal practice of the EC court are included, - identify labour law problems, - identify, analyse and structure labour law problems in aims to clarify these more in detail for own use and for others, - based on the labour law rules, argue for and against different legal solutions to the problems that have been identified and clarified, - reflect on labour law problems from both employer and employee perspectives, - independently relate to the different aspects that emerge when labour law problems are discussed, - critically examine and analyse labour law legal source material.

Content

The course covers the central labour law rules and their interplay with collective bargaining agreements and personal employment contracts. Within the scope of the course, basic labour law concepts and principles are studied, as well as the organisation of the labour market, entry into and contents of the employment contract, employment types, termination of employment, discrimination and equality, regulations concerning working environment and working hours, and regulations concerning wage protection. The course also introduces central legislative regulations in EC law, and particularly regulations that concern questions about the free mobility of the workforce.