Teaching
Teaching
Labour law is of fundamental importance for the Bachelor of Business Administration with a focus on law and Economics degree programmes. However, the courses are also aimed at students on the degree programmes Teaching at Vocational Schools, Sociology, Psychology and Political Science.
Study
In the summer semester, the basics of labour law are taught in the foundation course in the scope of 2 semester hours per week. Starting with the employment contract, the various employee protection rights are touched upon, and the course ends with the law on protection against dismissal. References to European law are included here as well as the constitutional principles.
In the main course, collective labour law is offered with 2 semester hours per week in the winter semester, which serves as an introduction to the main features of industrial relations between the parties to collective agreements and the participation rights of works councils in decision-making processes in the company.
In the summer and winter semesters, a broad range of seminars expands and deepens the course offerings in labour law. Seminars are regularly offered, each lasting two semester hours per week, on collective bargaining law, in particular on the standards of working conditions, the content and effects of collective agreements and the rights and obligations of the parties to collective agreements, on industrial relations and labour law in Europe, on special aspects of works constitution law, on labour law regulations for new groups of employees such as part-time employees, freelancers, teleworkers, temporary and marginal employees, etc., and on fundamental rights in employment relationships. as well as fundamental rights in the employment relationship as a classic cross-sectional topic of labour and constitutional law in an interdisciplinary legal, social science and economic perspective on the future of work and labour relations
In addition to an overview of the national labour law system, the courses provide students with a fundamental understanding of the main features of European labour, social and employment policy, knowledge of which is essential in view of the dynamic development process of European legislation and increasing globalisation.