Special Issues of Collective and Individual Labour Law

6 ECTS credits
160 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4023664FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

De student is ingeschreven in een traject waar het opleidingsonderdeel voorkomt.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Law and Criminology

Department

Publiek recht

Educational team

Evelien Timbermont (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

18 contact hours Lecture

Course Content

The course addresses various topics relating to labour law, offering students the opportunity to acquire specialist and thorough knowledge in this particular field. Moreover, the lectures provide the student with tools to approach (labour) law critically as well as to resolve complex cases.

The topics covered in the course may vary from year to year and depend on the most recent developments both at national, European or international level in, for example, legislation and case law.

As an example, below a list of topics that might be considered; specific types of employment, GDPR and privacy, termination of the employment contract, prescription, collective bargaining agreements, industrial action, etc. The latest societal and political developments are taken into account throughout the lectures systematically.

Topical social and political developments related to labour law are included into the lectures in a structured manner. The student is therefore expected to follow up on topical labour law issues.

Course material

Course text (Required) : Bijzondere vraagstukken uit het collectief en individueel arbeidsrecht, Reader, Most recent edition
Handbook (Recommended) : Synopsis van het Belgische arbeidsrecht - collectief arbeidsrecht, P. Humblet, W. Rauws, R. Janvier, Meest recente versie, Intersentia, 9789400008281
Handbook (Recommended) : Synopsis van het Belgische arbeidsrecht - individueel arbeidsrecht, W. Rauws, Intersentia, 9789400012738

Additional info

This course assumes that the student already has insight into Belgian labour law (See Synopsis van het Belgisch arbeidsrecht, Intersentia, most recent edition).

An extensive reader will be provided by the lecturer. This reader, i.e. a set of documents, enables the student to process the lectures more easily.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The student has a specialist knowledge of and insight into individual and collective labour relations under Belgian law and can, where necessary, refer back to European and/or international law;
The student can interpret and critically approach the historical and current developments in labour law;
The student has the ability to analyse and solve complex cases, taking into account the applicable legislation and case law;
The student is able to use critical insights to argue and defend a position in a creative and original way.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Oral exam with written preparation. The use of unannotated codes and/or statutes is allowed.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context