COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EU TRADE UNION RIGHTS AND UNION SECURITY IN TURKISH LAW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IŞG 7049 EU TRADE UNION RIGHTS AND UNION SECURITY IN TURKISH LAW COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Law and Social Security Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZEKI ERDUT

Offered to

Labour Law and Social Security Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

The main objective of this course is to analyze the results, reason and content of international and national law regulations on trade union rights. In this sense, the other objectives are to understand the implementation and recognition of trade union assurance and to learn of rules, principles and decisions related to the case law.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To analyze the results, reason and content of international and national law regulations on trade union rights
2   To learn the implementation and recognition of trade union assurance and to learn of rules, principles and decisions related to the case law
3   To analyze the trade union rights and trade union assurances in terms of social and economic aspects
4   To compare in terms of time and space the change of trade union rights and trade union assurances suffered in Turkey and global scale
5   To approach social and economical crisis and transformations in Turkey and global scale in the context of trade union rights and trade union assurances and to evaluate its effects on Turkey in the process of globalization.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Economic Policy and Governance
2 Social policy
3 EU's labour market
4 Employment Policy
5 European Employment Strategy
6 Guidelines for Employment
7 Midterm Exam
8 Open Method of Coordination and the National Reform Programmes
9 Business Structure, Relations of Production and Competition
10 Enlargement Policy and Localization
11 Free Movement of Labour
12 Distribution of Income
13 Informal Employment
14 Unemployment and Social Exclusion

Recomended or Required Reading

Lee Adler, Otto Jacobi, Lowell Turner, Anti-union ideology or something more: the attack on collective bargaining in the USA, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research Vol. 17, No. 3, 2011, p. 403-407.
Thomas Amossé et all. Les organisations patronales continuites et mutations des formes de representation du patronat. Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Mai 2011.
Paul-Henri Antonmattei, Vie professionnelle, vie personnelle et vie syndicale, Droit Social, No. 1, Janvier 2010, p. 21-23.
Paul-Henri Antonmattei, Négociation collective et syndicats catégoriels: le début des ennuis, Droit Social, No. 1, Janvier 2011, p. 89-93.
Jean-Paul Bouchet, L évolution des systèmes de négociation collective et de leurs acteurs, La Lettre, No. 88, 3ème trimestre, Juillet 2011.
Paul Bouffartigues, Dégradation du salariat et nouvelles figures du précariat, Interrogations No, 12, Juin 2011, p. 43-60.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, weekly readings, paper and others.

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Student Presentations 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 11 11
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 126

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.155
LO.255
LO.3555
LO.45555
LO.5555