Outlines of Labour Law a.y. 2025-2026 – Scienze dell'Educazione e della Formazione (EDU)

Teacher: Prof.ssa Antonella D’Andrea
E-mail: dandrea@uniroma2.it

CFU: 6
Course code: 804001955
Bachelor Degrees: Scienze dell’educazione e della formazione
Language: Italian

Course delivery modalities: online-learning
Attendance: Optional
Assessment method: Oral examination – Written test

Pre-requisites:
The students should possess a limited knowledge of the basic phenomena that occur in the relationship between an individual, his job, the employer and the organizational context.

Program:
During the lectures, the main institutes of Labour law will be illustrated. Labour Law: the constitutional principles and the legal sources of the employment relationships. Contractual types to manage Human Resources: the contract of employed and self-employed workers. The intellectual self-employed work. The working partnership. The association agreements and cooperative work. The unpaid work. Human Resources management with flexible labour contracts: the fixed-term work, the part-time and intermittent work. The temporary employment. The apprenticeship contract, training on the job and stage. Specific characteristics of human resources management in Public Administrations: the employment of civil service staff. Rights and obligations in employment relationship and the protection of employees: workers’ duties and disciplinary sanctions; workers’ tasks and their modification; employer’s powers; health and safety at work; working time regulation; wage regulation; dismissal law; remedies and sanctions. Trade Unions Law: the efficacy of collective agreements (their scope and bindingness); structure and levels of collective bargaining; temporal efficacy of collective agreements; the trade unions and their internal organisation; representative and representativeness; strike and lockout. Social Security Law: The national welfare system; protection for health; protection against poverty and the risk of social exclusion. Lectures on topical subjects, by examining research, case study and law case in English and Italian language, will be conducted. Some problematic cases will be debated.

Program:

During the lectures, the main institutes of Labour law will be illustrated.
Labour Law: the constitutional principles and the legal sources of the employment relationships.
Contractual types to manage Human Resources: the contract of employed and self-employed workers. The intellectual self-employed work. The working partnership. The association agreements and cooperative work. The unpaid work.
Human Resources management with flexible labour contracts: the fixed-term work, the part-time and intermittent work. The temporary employment. The apprenticeship contract, training on the job and stage.
Specific characteristics of human resources management in Public Administrations: the employment of civil service staff. Rights and obligations in employment relationship and the protection of employees: workers’ duties and disciplinary sanctions; workers’ tasks and their modification; employer’s powers; health and safety at work; working time regulation; wage regulation; dismissal law; remedies and sanctions.
Trade Unions Law: the efficacy of collective agreements (their scope and bindingness); structure and levels of collective bargaining; temporal efficacy of collective agreements; the trade unions and their internal organisation; representative and representativeness; strike and lockout.
Social Security Law: The national welfare system; protection for health; protection against poverty and the risk of social exclusion.
Lectures on topical subjects, by examining research, case study and law case in English and Italian language, will be conducted. Some problematic cases will be debated.

Text books:
Slides and pamphlets by A. D’Andrea Antonio Vallebona, Breviario di Diritto del lavoro, Giappichelli Torino, last edition (par. 5 cap. I and cap. IX excluded)

Educational goals and expected learning outcomes:
LEARNING OUTCOMES: The course aim is to provide students with knowledge of the main legal arrangements of Labour Law considering its double dimension, individual and collective, and giving special attention to the role of the socio-pedagogical educator inside the welfare systems. Specifically the course has to represent the place where students, through a participatory way of teaching based on case studies presentations and discussions on real judgements, can acquire the competences which are necessary to put that knowledge in relation to concrete situations and specific problems that they could face in their organizational realities, while carrying out activities related to fields such as education, animation, recovery, reception, reintegration and rehabilitation inside educational and welfare services and safeguard structures such as: nurseries and early childhood services, socio-educational and socio-assistance structures, social services and communities, housing communities, centres for elders, centres for immigrants, communities for people at socio-cultural disadvantage, assisted therapeutic communities, adult education centres. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: The students will demonstrate knowledge and ability in understanding the problems related with different organizational contexts and with the management of human resources. This will allow them to apply the acquired knowledge to detect, examine and monitor problems regarding work relationships inside different organizations, from both an individual and a group point of view. The students will know how to choose the most adequate tools to intervene in the prevention and reduction of critical issues in the environment of social services organization and management. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Students will be able use notions, categories and institutes related to Labour law, Trade Unions law and Social Security law to solve concrete problems, designing and setting up interventions to give value to human resources, interacting with other professional profiles and using the most suitable techniques, methods and tools for different contexts. Other than that, they will be able to perform a specific and important function in welfare systems. MAKING JUDGEMENTS: The students will have the capability to supplement their knowledge and manage the complexity other than express personal judgements on the base of absorbed informations. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: The students will be able to communicate, clearly and without any ambiguity, their thoughts and conclusions to their interlocutors and will manage to use the most suitable communication strategies for the environment they operate in. In particular, the students will demonstrate expository and communicative skills developed throughout the course, using a participatory way of teaching. LEARNING SKILLS: The students will develop learning skills which will allow them to keep studying the subjects in an autonomous and auto-directed manner. Facing cases and concrete experiences will make them develop the capability to constantly and individually seek for an update of their acquired knowledge.

Educational goals and expected learning outcomes:

LEARNING OUTCOMES: The course aim is to provide students with knowledge of the main legal arrangements of Labour Law considering its double dimension, individual and collective, and giving special attention to the role of the socio-pedagogical educator inside the welfare systems.
Specifically the course has to represent the place where students, through a participatory way of teaching based on case studies presentations and discussions on real judgements, can acquire the competences which are necessary to put that knowledge in relation to concrete situations and specific problems that they could face in their organizational realities, while carrying out activities related to fields such as education, animation, recovery, reception, reintegration and rehabilitation inside educational and welfare services and safeguard structures such as: nurseries and early childhood services, socio-educational and socio-assistance structures, social services and communities, housing communities, centres for elders, centres for immigrants, communities for people at socio-cultural disadvantage, assisted therapeutic communities, adult education centres.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: The students will demonstrate knowledge and ability in understanding the problems related with different organizational contexts and with the management of human resources. This will allow them to apply the acquired knowledge to detect, examine and monitor problems regarding work relationships inside different organizations, from both an individual and a group point of view. The students will know how to choose the most adequate tools to intervene in the prevention and reduction of critical issues in the environment of social services organization and management.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Students will be able use notions, categories and institutes related to Labour law, Trade Unions law and Social Security law to solve concrete problems, designing and setting up interventions to give value to human resources, interacting with other professional profiles and using the most suitable techniques, methods and tools for different contexts. Other than that, they will be able to perform a specific and important function in welfare systems.
MAKING JUDGEMENTS: The students will have the capability to supplement their knowledge and manage the complexity other than express personal judgements on the base of absorbed informations.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS: The students will be able to communicate, clearly and without any ambiguity, their thoughts and conclusions to their interlocutors and will manage to use the most suitable communication strategies for the environment they operate in.
In particular, the students will demonstrate expository and communicative skills developed throughout the course, using a participatory way of teaching.
LEARNING SKILLS: The students will develop learning skills which will allow them to keep studying the subjects in an autonomous and auto-directed manner. Facing cases and concrete experiences will make them develop the capability to constantly and individually seek for an update of their acquired knowledge.

Methods and criteria for verifying the learning:
The final exam consists of an oral test concerning the contents of the course. The ability to critically discuss will be particurarly appreciated. The exam assesses the student’s overall preparation, the ability to combine knowledge about each part of the syllabus, the coherence of argumentation, the analytical ability, and the autonomy of judgment. In addition, the student’s command of language and clarity of presentation are also assessed, in adherence with the Dublin descriptors (1. knowledge and understanding; 2. applying knowledge and experience; 3. making judgments; 4. learning skills; 5: communication skills). The exam will be evaluated according to the following criteria: – Failed: significant deficiencies and inaccuracies in the knowledge and the understanding of the subject matter; poor analytical and synthesizing skills, recurrent generalizations, limited critical and judgmental skills; the arguments are exposed inconsistently and with inappropriate language. – 18-20: Knowledge and understanding of topics barely adequate, with occasional generalizations and imperfections possible; sufficient capacity for analysis synthesis and autonomy of judgment, the arguments are frequently exposed in an incoherent manner and with inappropriate/non technical language. – 21-23: Fair knowledge and understanding of the subject; proper analysis and synthesis skills with coherent, logical argumentation, but with language that is often inappropriate/non technical. – 24-26: Moderate knowledge and understanding of the subjects; good analytical and synthesis skills with arguments expressed rigorously but with language that is not always appropriate/technical. – 27-29: Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the subjects; remarkable analytical and synthesis skills. Good autonomy of judgment. Topics expounded rigorously and with appropriate/technical language. 30-30L: Excellent level of in-depth knowledge and understanding of the subjects. Excellent skills in analysis, synthesis, and independent judgment. Arguments are expressed in an original way and with appropriate technical language.

Methods and criteria for verifying the learning:

The final exam consists of an oral test concerning the contents of the course. The ability to critically discuss will be particurarly appreciated.
The exam assesses the student’s overall preparation, the ability to combine knowledge about each part of the syllabus, the coherence of argumentation, the analytical ability, and the autonomy of judgment. In addition, the student’s command of language and clarity of presentation are also assessed, in adherence with the Dublin descriptors (1. knowledge and understanding; 2. applying knowledge and experience; 3. making judgments; 4. learning skills; 5: communication skills).
The exam will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
– Failed: significant deficiencies and inaccuracies in the knowledge and the understanding of the subject matter; poor analytical and synthesizing skills, recurrent generalizations, limited critical and judgmental skills; the arguments are exposed inconsistently and with inappropriate language.
– 18-20: Knowledge and understanding of topics barely adequate, with occasional generalizations and imperfections possible; sufficient capacity for analysis synthesis and autonomy of judgment, the arguments are frequently exposed in an incoherent manner and with inappropriate/non technical language.
– 21-23: Fair knowledge and understanding of the subject; proper analysis and synthesis skills with coherent, logical argumentation, but with language that is often inappropriate/non technical.
– 24-26: Moderate knowledge and understanding of the subjects; good analytical and synthesis skills with arguments expressed rigorously but with language that is not always appropriate/technical.
– 27-29: Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the subjects; remarkable analytical and synthesis skills. Good autonomy of judgment. Topics expounded rigorously and with appropriate/technical language.
30-30L: Excellent level of in-depth knowledge and understanding of the subjects. Excellent skills in analysis, synthesis, and independent judgment. Arguments are expressed in an original way and with appropriate technical language.

Attendance modalities:
The Course consists of face-to-face lessons during which participatory teaching is favoured. Lessons will be 30 hours during the second semester. The teaching method is as follows: 1. To make students understand the legal phenomena that arise in the relationship between the individual/worker, the work, the employer and the organisational context; 2. Analyse problems from different points of view by applying the knowledge gained in order to learn how to detect, analyse and monitor organizational processes, dynamics and behaviours, both individual and group; 3. Tackling the examination of empiric cases to develop skills in the ability to intervene in terms of both prevention and reduction of critical issues, as well as the promotion of well-being in the workplace, also in relation to the peculiarities of different organizational contexts. Participation in lectures is not mandatory but highly recommended.

Attendance modalities:

The Course consists of face-to-face lessons during which participatory teaching is favoured. Lessons will be 30 hours during the second semester. The teaching method is as follows: 1. To make students understand the legal phenomena that arise in the relationship between the individual/worker, the work, the employer and the organisational context; 2. Analyse problems from different points of view by applying the knowledge gained in order to learn how to detect, analyse and monitor organizational processes, dynamics and behaviours, both individual and group; 3. Tackling the examination of empiric cases to develop skills in the ability to intervene in terms of both prevention and reduction of critical issues, as well as the promotion of well-being in the workplace, also in relation to the peculiarities of different organizational contexts.
Participation in lectures is not mandatory but highly recommended.