- A technical understanding of collective relations between employers and workers.
- The ability to understand and analyse these systems in a socio-economic and political context in Bel-gium and at international level.
Main themes
Learning about key notions and mechanisms; information and analysis of realities. The course is mainly focused on Belgium, but makes comparisons with certain situations in other countries. It also analyses the ways in which the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the European Union intervene in labour law.
The course deals with actors (trade unions and employers' associations), the institutional framework (concerta-tion bodies), negotiations and collective agreements (status, implementation and content), and collective dis-putes (preventive actions and institutions, and the status, forms, procedure and conduct of disputes)
Content and teaching methods
Content
- Introduction
- The concept of collective labor relations
- the institutional architecture of relations in a historical perspective
- Freedom of association: the repression to the (history of law)
- Freedom of Association in the international instruments (United Nations, ILO, Council of Europe)
- The collective action and collective
- Corporate Boards: instittution, skills
European works councils
- Delegation of Association
- Committee on the Prevention and Protection -
- Restructuring and Industrial Relations
- The protection of workers' representatives / delegates
- The legal status of unions: a debate of 125 years
- Speech on Corporate Social Responsibility, the end of collective
- The Rules of Work
- Dialogue Social Community
- Relations bipartite and tripartite national
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
This course forms part of a study programme that takes place in the evenings and on Saturday mornings.