Special Course (3): EU Labour Law

The course offers an overview of the historical development of labour regulation and the evolution of EU labour law. It examines international and regional sources of labour law, the link between trade and labour regulation and covers, from comparative perspective, the main current challenges to labour law, such as the scope of application of labour legislation, the question of distinction between subordinated work and self-employment and types of flexible employment relationship. The course focuses, in particular, on the influence of the EU law to ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ employment relationship, namely, the protection of workers in case of transfer of undertakings and collective redundancy, protection of migrant workers and the prohibition of discrimination at work.

To learn how to apply the knowledge of labour law to international business relationships.

Labour Law

Lecture 1: Historical development of labour regulation and comparativism in Labour Law Lecture 2: Who is employer and who is employee? Lecture 3: Trade and Labour link Lecture 4: International Labour Law Lecture 5: EU labour law: development, sources Lecture 6: EU labour law: influence to ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ employment relationship Lecture 7: EU labour law: influence to ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ employment relationship Lecture 8: EU labour law: Equality and prohibition of discrimination in employment/Course review

Students' knowledge will be assessed by a test.