Study:	Public administration - 4. semester
Code:	111402
ECTS:	7.0
Course coordinators:	prof. dr. sc. Željko Potočnjak prof. dr. sc. Ivana Grgurev izv. prof. dr. sc. Viktor Gotovac izv. prof. dr. sc. Ivana Vukorepa
Lecturers:	dr. sc. Iva Bjelinski Radić - Lectures
Exam dates:	29. 08. 2022. 12. 09. 2022. Exam registration: Studomat

Literature:

Anton Ravnić; Osnove radnog prava - domaćeg, usporednog i međunarodnog; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (2004), str. 98-116; 130-158; 459-549; 580-626 Željko Potočnjak; Radni odnosi državnih službenika; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (2013), str. 1-22 Željko Potočnjak, Andrea Grgić; Osnovni pojmovi i koncepcije o zabrani diskriminacije u radnom pravu, u: Perspektive antidiskriminacijskog prava (uredili: Željko Potočnjak, Ivana Grgurev i Andrea Grgić); Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (2014), str. 1-48 Zakon o radu; Zakon o reprezentativnosti udruga poslodavaca i sindikata; Zakon o državnim službenicima; Zakon o rodiljnim i roditeljskim potporama; Zakon o tržištu rada; Zakon o mirovinskom osiguranju (samo članci 1.-140.a.); Zakon o obveznom zdravstvenom osiguranju (samo članci 1.-86. i 119.-134.); ;

Description:

Defining labor and social law as special area of law, their relationship with each other and with other areas of law. Economic, social and political aspects of labor and social rights. Basic concepts and conceptions on the prohibition of discrimination in labor and social law. Manners of drafting decisions on the exercise and protection of labor and social rights. Records in the field of labor and social law. Sources of labor and social law and their characteristics. Basic features of various forms of employment contracts, organization of working hours and holidays, wages, transfer of employment contracts to another employer, prohibition of competition between workers and employers, compensation for damages from employment, termination of employment contracts (especially dismissals and collective redundancies ), the right to severance pay and judicial and alternative (out-of-court) settlement of labor disputes. Organizing workers in trade unions and employers in their associations, collective bargaining and the main features of collective agreements, the right to strike and workers' participation in decision-making. Specificities of labor relations between civil servants and public servants. Active employment policy and public employment service functions. Basic features of the social security system. Basic information about the organization of pension insurance and the conditions for acquiring the right to old-age, disability and survivors' pensions. Factors determining and adjusting pensions. Basic information about the organization of health insurance and rights from compulsory health insurance. Unemployment rights. Maternity and parental benefits. Administrative and judicial procedures for exercising social rights.

Cognitive Skills:

Knowledge and understanding

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

Define labour and social security law as special branches oflaw, their relation and relation with other branches of law. This particularly applies to the basic institutes of individual and collective labour law, active employment policy and protection of the unemployed, penison and health insurance, social welfare, maternity and parental support, child allowances, professional rehabilitation and emplyoment of disabled persons, as well as protection of fundamental human rights, including protection from discrimination.

Explain basic characteristics of the historical development of labour and social security law. The relation between international, European and national labour law and social security. The relation between individual sources of labour and social security law. Economic and social significance of labour and social security law.

Recognise: relevant law and relevant legal institute for resolving certain legal issues from the area of labour and social security law and determine which procedure should be applied for resolving this issue (labour or social dispute).

Discuss: different models and individual solutions of the development of labour and social law.

Report: about possible solutions for certain legal issues from the area of labour and social law. Propose appropriate legal means and procedures for resolving certain issues.

 

Application

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

Select: relevant law that shold be applied in a certain problem.

Interpret: relevant law.

Apply: relevant law to determined facts and make appropriate decision, or propose appropriate decision to the competent body

Use: different databases of legal sources, court practice and relevant literature in the preparation of decisions about different legal issues

Outline: drafts of simpler decisions, decisions and normative acts that regulate certain legal issues from the area of labour and social security law.

Illustrate: different possibilities for resolving certain less complex legal issues and different outcomes of these possibilities

 

Analysis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

Distinguish: different legal problems and sources of law relevant for their solution

Analyse: legal problem, its factual and legal aspects. Effects of proposed legal solutions for the rights and interests of interested legal subjects.

Calculate: monetary compensation or assistance, pension and costs of selected solutions if the calculation in question demands knowledge about basic mathematical and statistical rules

Examine: relevant court and administrative practice and literature related to a certain legal issue

Compare: legal and other outcomes of selected legal solutions.

Indicate: proposals optimal for resolution of certain legal issues.

Resolve: simpler legal issues from labour and social security law

Categorise: types of employment agreement, regulation of working hours and breaks, termination of employment agreement, prohibtion of competition between employee and employer, associations of workers and employers, collective agreements, forms of workers' participation, strikes and other forms of industrial actions,

 

 

Synthesis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

Prepare: drafts of individual and general legal acts and explanations of these acts.

Propose: making simpler decisions or other individual legal acts.

Formulate: poposals for passing or changing individual simpler decisions and similar legal acts.

Distribute: tasks for individual team members or means for completing certain tasks.

Manage: social welfare center, state administration or local self-government body in charge of social affairs, nonprofit institution concerned with social security.

Manage: human resourcesl unit of a small state administration or local self-government body competent for deciding about labour and social issues.

 

Evaluation

 

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

Assess: which out of offered solutions is the most appropriate one for resolving a certain legal problem.

Recommend: what kind of employment agreement to conclude, how to regulate working hours, breaks and salary, which type of termination of contract to give, to take advice on which decision or which decision to propose in the procedure of codecision in councils of workers, how to regulate certain issues ion collective agreement, making a certain less complex decision from the area of pension or health insurance in case of unemployment.

Examine: legal validity of certain decision from the area of labour and social security law.

Evaluate: proposals of individual employment agreements, individual decisions from the rights from employment, proposals of decisions about the rights from pension and health insurance in case of unemployment.

Compare: legal consequences of selected legal solutions.

Select: the most appropriate resolution of a certain issue from the area of labour and social security law. Legal means to be used for protection and realisation of a certain right.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully completing the course, students will understand and be able to explain the subject matter, sources of law and other legal specific features of labour and social security law. They will be able to determine relevant facts, choose a relevant legal rule, analyse court and administrative practice and propose an adequate solution of a certain less complex legal problem. They will be trained to prepare simpler contracts, decisions and other acts related to legal regulation of labour and social security relations. For that puprpose, they will be trained to make necessary analyses and to present their results. They will be able to conduct administrative procedures pertaining labour and social security law and for the management of human potentials in smaller companies and units of the state administration and local self-government.

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

Knowledge is tested by an oral examination. Oral examination consists of testing the understanding of basic theories and institutes of labour and social security law, reproducing theoretical explanations and standpounts and the position of the court practice about individual institutes of labour and social security law, comparison of different systems of labour relations and social security and legal institutes that are characteristic for them, demonstrating the ability to apply relevant sources of law on resolving certain less complex legal issues and problems, and evaluating individual legal solutions considering their legal justification.

Consultations schedule:

• prof. dr. sc. Željko Potočnjak:

  Fridays at 10.00 with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/wnw-ooso-cjk?authuser=0

  Location: Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, room 45
• izv. prof. dr. sc. Viktor Gotovac:

  Wednesdays at 17.00

  Location: Gundulićeva 10, room 11
• izv. prof. dr. sc. Ivana Vukorepa:

  From 1st October 2021 until 30th September 2022 there will be no consultation hours due to sabbatical. 

  Location: Gundulićeva 10, room 13
• dr. sc. Iva Bjelinski Radić:

  Mondays at 9.30 - online via Google Meet link http://meet.google.com/jmi-sgiw-aeb

  Location: Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, room 40 (4. kat - potkrovlje)