COURSE UNIT TITLE

: APPLIED LABOUR-EMPLOYER RELATIONS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEK 6108 APPLIED LABOUR-EMPLOYER RELATIONS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAKAN KESER

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

It is aimed to introduce students characteristics, principales and rules of Labor Law. By the help of this education, students will be able to immobilize the situation (due diligence) encountered all kind of Labor law matters. Also by teaching this lesson it is aimed to provide students to use their knowledge related to individual labour law, collective labour law and public labour law recognize the legal problems in practice.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to examine the concepts of employees and employers with making cas practices
2   Being able to analyse judicial decisions related to employer's and employee's rights and obligations in working life
3   Being able to analyse cas practices related to all kind of lawsuits and compensations arising from Labour Law
4   Being able to analyse all kind of disputes that may arise fromcollective labour relations by the help of the examples
5   Being able to make connections between public labour law rules and cas practices related to public employees

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Resolve event analysis about the concepts of employer, employee, or agent of employer, apprentice, business
2 Resolve event analysis about the concept of employment contract and types of employment contract
3 Resolve event analysis about the differential characteristics of employment contracts from contract agreement and mandatum agreement
4 Resolve event analysis about the Judicial decisions concerning the rights and liabilities of the employee
5 Resolve event analysis about the Judicial decisions concerning the rights and liabilities of the employer
6 Resolve event analysis about the working hours, compensatory work, search the rest, night work, paid annual leave
7 Case Study
8 Mid-term Exam
9 Resolve event analysis about the the concept of overtime work, the employee and the employer's obligations, the concept of wage and salary systems
10 Resolve event analysis about the unions, the characteristics of Turkish labor unionism, founder of a union
11 Resolve event analysis about the the bodies of the trade unions, income, trade union membership, expiration of trade unions
12 Resolve event analysis about the concept of collective bargaining agreement, conduct the procedure of collective bargaining agreements
13 Resolve event analysis about the peaceful settlement: mediation and arbitration
14 Resolve event analysis about the concept of a strike, the strike elements of the legal strike rating, bans strikes, lock-outs concept, elements of legal lockout

Recomended or Required Reading

AKYIĞIT, Ercan: Iş Hukuku, 8.Bası, Ankara 2010.
ÇELIK, Nuri: Iş Hukuku Dersleri, Yenilenmiş 23. Bası, Istanbul 2010.
DEMIR, Fevzi: Iş Hukuku ve Uygulaması, 4. Baskı, Izmir 2009.
KESER, Hakan: Türk Kamu Sektöründe Bireysel Iş Ilişkileri, Izmir 2007.
SÜZEK, Sarper: Iş Hukuku, 5. Bası, Istanbul 2009.
SUR, Melda: Iş Hukuku Toplu Ilişkiler, 3. Bası, Ankara 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Consolidating those described with practical solutions in the form of questions and answers.
Ensuring student attendance through processing and analysing the Supreme Court decisions.
Describing related legal provisions being read by the students during lessons.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


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)

coskun.sarac@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 15:00-16:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 140

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.555