Università Roma Tre

CONTENTS
• Historical development and current trends in labour law.
• Sources of labour law and trade union law; constitutional principles; European and international sources.
• Freedom of association and trade union organisation (outside and inside the workplace).
• Trade union representation and representativeness.
• Collective agreements: levels of bargaining, structure and personal scope of application.
• The right to strike and other forms of industrial action; regulation of strikes in essential public services (overview).
• Injunctions against anti-union conduct.
• The employment relationship: definition of employee status; boundaries with self-employment and quasi-subordinate work.
• Formation of the employment relationship. Contracts of employment: employment and self-employment (overview), main types of employment contract.
• Employee duties (co-operation, diligence, obedience, fidelity).
• Employer’s powers (managerial, monitoring and disciplinary powers) and their limits, with particular reference to the protection of workers’ dignity and privacy.
• Protection of the person, dignity and freedom of the worker; prohibitions of discrimination; pay and pay systems; working time and rest periods.
• Job classification and allocation of duties; the employer’s right to vary duties (jus variandi).
• Termination of the employment relationship: individual and collective dismissals; resignation, with or without just cause; basic framework of protection against unfair dismissal.

M. Esposito, L. Gaeta, A. Zoppoli, L. Zoppoli, Diritto del lavoro e sindacale, Giappichelli, Turin, latest edition.