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Course: 2025/2026

Legal framework of the labor market and social protection
(14117)
Bachelor in Economics (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 145 - Estudio: 202)


Coordinating teacher: PEREZ DEL PRADO, DANIEL

Department assigned to the subject: Social and Private International Law Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Introduction to patrimonial law
Objectives
- Distinguish employment contract and related legal concepts. -Identify sources applicable to the employment relationship, particularly the collective agreement. -Know the types of employment contracts and conditions for its provision and determine the legality or illegality of a contract. -Know the business requirement and high social security contributions. -Know the power of direction and limits. -Understand the regulatory framework for working conditions (time, remuneration, occupational hazards, etc..) And determine the legality or illegality of a particular work situation. -To know the vicissitudes of the individual employment relationship and the rights of workers to change. -Know the modes of termination of the employment relationship and their legal effects, including the compensatory ones.
Learning Outcomes
K6: Comprehend the economic and social impact of various public policies on different agents and in diverse socioeconomic contexts. K8: Understanding economic institutions K9: Identify the economic, political, and social framework for the activities of various economic, political, or social agents. K10: Understand the fundamental elements of the economic environment from the perspective of different theories and various economic agents. S1: To plan and organize team work making the right decisions based on available information and gathering data in digital environments. S2: Exploit information by interpreting relevant data, avoiding plagiarism, and adhering to academic and professional conventions within the field of study, with the ability to evaluate the reliability and quality of the information. S3: Apply the knowledge acquired in the degree program to rigorously, accurately, and scientifically identify socioeconomic processes and propose potential solutions. S5: Formulate, debate, and defend critical and ethical arguments related to Economics. S11: Describe and analyze economic problems within a specific social context. C1: Develop interpersonal skills such as initiative, responsibility, conflict resolution, negotiation, etc., which are required in the professional domain. C2: Communicate effectively to different audiences knowledge, methodologies, ideas and solutions in the field of study. C3: Independently develop and defend a problem within the disciplinary scope of the degree, proposing well-founded solutions through the application of the knowledge, skills, tools, and strategies acquired or developed throughout the degree program.
Description of contents: programme
I. INTRODUCTION Lesson 1. Social law and economic efficiency and equity 1.- Fields of social law: Employment law, Collective Labour Law and Social Protection 2.- Historical foundations of social law 3.- Markt Failures and efficiency: an economic grounds form labour market regulations 4.- Social Law and equity Lesson 2. El derecho social en España: Fuentes de su regulación 1.- Basic scheme of sources of the labour market laws and distribution of competences among territorial levels 2.- Rigid framework as a red line: International Treaties, European Laws and Spanish Constitution. 3.- Other statutes and rules easier to modify: Statutes, collective bargaining agreements and other sources of law. II. EMPLOYMENT LAW Lesson 3. Application and interpretation criteria 1.- Principles and rules of employment law 2.- Fundamental Rights Lesson 4. Flexibilidad interna: el derecho y la adaptación a los cambios económicos 1.- General framework: working time and resting time 2.- Part time work and ¿complementary¿ hours 3.- Flexible working time legal and collective bargaining 4.- Changing working conditions: employer management power, ¿substantial¿ modifications and geographical mobility. Lesson 5. Hiring and duality 1.- Temporary hiring and its causality 2.- Legal based costs for fixed term and non-fixed term workers 3.- Cost of employment termination under each kind of contract Lesson 6. Quantitative adjustments 1.- Reasons for the end of employment, a general outline 2.- Internationa treaties and European regulations on dismissals 3.- Individual layoffs: motives and procedures 4.- Layoffs as managerial tool and alternatives in Spanish labour law:m motives 5.- Collective dismissal in Spain 6.- Regulation alternatives and juridical viability: single contract and Austrian fund. III. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Lesson 7. Subjects in industrial relations 1.- Legal representatives and trade unions: concept and functions 2.- Trade Union¿s Representativeness levels and its effects in Spanish industrial relations system 3.- Employers association Representativeness 4.- Comparative models of Representativeness and their effects Lesson 8. Collective bargaining agreements 1.- Statutory Collective bargaining agreements and other kinds of agreements 2.- Constitutional and international law limits on collective bargaining 3.- Contents and efficacy of Collective bargaining agreements Lesson 9. Effects of collective bargaining agreements 1.- Collective bargaining structure and determination of which one applies 2.- ¿Ultraactivity¿ or the effects of an expired agreement: concept and regulation 3.- Other models of collective bargaining: a comparative analysis and viability in Spanish labour relations system. IV. SOCIAL PROTECTION Lesson 10. Spanish system of social protection 1.- Social Security, social assistance and other ways of protection. 2.- Constitutional elements of the model 3.- Basic concepts on social security 4.- General overview of rights and obligations Lesson 11. Social Security protection system 1.- Unemployment: Active and passive employment policies and alternatives in a comparative perspective. 2.- Older workers: pension scheme. Pension systems in Europe 3.- Other protection areas.
Learning activities and methodology
- Lecture. - Complementary activities: - Practical Cases - Workshops - Tests - Individuals tutorials
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Carnard, Catherine. EU Employment Law. Oxford Union Law Library. 2012
  • Guerrero Padrón, T. and Ribes Moreno, I (dirs). Social Security Law in Spain. Wolters Kluwer. 2024
  • Gómez Abelleira, F. J and Pérez del Prado, D.. Handbook of European and Spanish Employment and Social Security Law. Tecnos. 2024
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Additional Bibliography
  • Pieters, D.. Social Security: An Introduction to the Basic Principle. Kluwer Law. 2008
Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
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