030208 KU Comparative Labour Law: A Trans-systemic Approach (2023S)

The course is primarily addressed to students wishing to approach that particular field of law usually called ‘labour’ or ‘employment’ law from a perspective different than their own national law. The progressive blurring of nation-State boarders in regulation the many aspects of contemporary societies became more and more urgent also in the regulation of employment relationships and the main legal institutions thereof. However, instead of focusing on supranational sources of regulation (international treaties, ILO Conventions and Recommendations, or even EU law) to didactically explain a world of work increasingly multifaceted, this course is centred on the richness and complexity of national experiences of labour law, in the ultimate conviction that the study of basic concepts of labour law through the transsystemic methodology may allow readers to grasp cross-fertilization of different models while keeping their diversity. This may also serve as an antidote against a superficially globalising approach to the regulation of labour relations, especially across European countries. The steering function of EU harmonization law and policies, in fact, should not bring to underestimate the importance of different traditions and legal formants in the single system.