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Specialization (SP) Module 2: Labor and Social Law

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Specialization (SP) Module 2: Labor and Social Law
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Business Administration, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2016
Module code: BBWL-552/652
SAP-Submodule-No.:
The exam administration creates a SAP-Submodule-No for every exam type in every module. The SAP-Submodule-No is equal for the same module in different study programs.
P420-0035
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for Übung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
4V (4 hours per week)
ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
5
Semester: according to optional course list
Mandatory course: no
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Written exam (120 min. / Can be repeated semesterly)

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Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

BBWL-552 Business Administration, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2012 , optional course
BBWL-552/652 (P420-0035) Business Administration, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2016 , optional course
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.
The total student study time is 150 hours (equivalent to 5 ECTS credits).
There are therefore 105 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
BBWL-230 Law - Basic Course
BBWL-330 Business Law


[updated 18.12.2019]
Recommended as prerequisite for:
BBWL-554/654 Specialization (SP) Module 4: Digital HR and Other Current Topics in Human Resources Management


[updated 01.10.2016]
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Holger Buck
Lecturer:
Dozierende des Studiengangs


[updated 18.12.2019]
Learning outcomes:
After successfully completing this module, students will:
 
- be familiar with the main provisions of individual labor law and the
  core provisions of social security law.
- be able to relate them to the establishment, performance and termination of
  employment relationships.
- be familiar with the basic principles of collective labor law and understand its
  function for the cooperation between employers and
  and employee representative bodies.
- be able to deal independently with legal texts, understand the hierarchy of standards and
  the significance of the set of standards for operational practice.
- be able to develop solutions for specific cases by classifying the problem, subsuming the facts under the characteristics of the relevant regulations and deriving the result from them.
- be able to review the results based on general legal value judgements.
 
 


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Module content:
Part 1 Individual Labor Law
  
1 General principles
2 Establishing an employment relationship
3 Rights and obligations under the employment contract
3.1 Main obligations
3.2 Secondary obligations
3.3 Transfer of operations
4 Defective performance in the employment relationship
4.1 For employers: the theory of business and economic risk
4.2 For employees: principles of employee liability
5 Terminating an employment relationship
5.1 Terminating an employment relationship
5.2 Other reasons for termination, in particular termination agreement and expiration of deadline
5.3 Protection against the termination of an employment relationship
   
 
Part 2 Collective Labor Law
 
1 Right of association
2 Collective bargaining agreement
3 Industrial action law
4 Co-determination
4.1 Internal co-determination: works constitution
4.2 Inter-company co-determination: corporate constitution
  
 
Part 3 Social Law
 
1 Structure and regulations of the statutory social insurance system
2 Membership and obligation to contribute
3 Overview of benefit claims and exclusions


[updated 02.01.2019]
Teaching methods/Media:
Lecture and case study exercises

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Recommended or required reading:
- Brox, H. u. a.. Arbeitsrecht. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer,
  latest edition
- Dütz, W. / Thüsing, G. Arbeitsrecht. München: C.H. Beck, latest edition.
- Junker, A. Grundkurs Arbeitsrecht. München: Beck, latest edition.
- Schaub, G. (Begr.) Arbeitsrechts-Handbuch. München: Beck, latest edition.
- Steckler, B. u. a.. Kompendium Arbeitsrecht und Sozialversicherung,
  Ludwigshafen: Kiehl, latest edition


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