Introduction to European Social Union 9.AII.Z2.3.KJON
1 The social acquis of the EU and the objectives of the European Pillar of
Social Rights:
- the essence of the social acquis
- the missing elements of EU social law
- the impact of the Economic and Monetary Union on the social acquis
and the importance of the EFPS
2. Social rights of mobile workers:
- right to equal treatment
- coordination of social security
- the actual mobility of EU workers
- brain drain phenomenon and demographic imbalance
3. Conflicts between fundamental freedoms and social rights:
- free provision of services and use of workers
posted workers in the internal market
- market freedoms, freedom to do business, and
labor law
4 Union trade policy and the protection of social rights.
5. Climate change and social justice.
Field of study
Supplementary literature
Study level
Education profile
Type of course
The semester in which the subject is carried out
Mode
Requirements
Learning outcomes
- the student knows the types of social ties corresponding to the fields of science and scientific disciplines, appropriate to the studied major, and knows the regularities governing them, as well as in-depth knowledge of the impact of norms on the functioning of society, public bodies and institutions , their mutual relations and interdependencies
- the student has the ability to make complex, practical use of the acquired knowledge in order to make an in-depth analysis of motives, behavior, actions, formulate hypotheses and prevent phenomena and events
- the student is aware of his knowledge and skills, the conviction of the need for continuous training and professional development, setting the directions of his own development and education, and has the ability to keep up with changes in the law, actively participate in activities to shape and deepen the social and legal culture of public entities and third parties
Assessment criteria
Participation in lectures and approaching the credit test (closed-ended questions).
The number of points earned is converted by percentage according to the following scale:
100% - 5.0 (bdb)
90% - 4.5 (db+)
80% - 4.0 (db)
70% - 3.5 (dst+)
60% - 3.0 (dst)
Bibliography
• J. Kubera, T. Morozowski, A ‘Social Turn’ in the European Union? New trends and ideas about social convergence in Europe, Routhlege 2021.
• S. Robin-Olivier, The relationship between international law and Euro-pean labour legislation and its impact on the development of interna-tional and European social law, International Labour Review, Vol. 159 159 (2020), No. 4.
• M. Ferrera, Towards a European Social Union : The European Pillar of Social Rights and the Roadmap for a fully-fledged Social Union: A Fo-rum Debate, Torino 2019.
• B. Vanhercke, D. Ghailani, S. Sabato, Social policy in the European Un-ion: state of play 2018, Brusseles 2018.
• F. Vanderbroucke, C. Barnard, G. De Baere, An European Social Union after the Crisis, Cambridge 2017.
• C. Barnard, The Substantive Law of the EU. The Four Freedoms, Oxford 2013.
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