BEV802K Basics of Labour Law and Social Security in EU

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Blažek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Jana Komendová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Michal Smejkal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Jana Komendová, Ph.D.
Department of Financial Law and Economics – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Zuzana Suchá
Supplier department: Department of Financial Law and Economics – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites (in Czech)
!OBOR(PR) && !OBOR(PR01) && !PROGRAM(N-VS)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 81 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/81, only registered: 51/81, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 50/81
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In this course students deal with the EU law relating to social policy. They study selected issues of labour law and social security law regulated at European level. First, they focus on the primary law - the establishing treaties and their provisions relating to the social policy. Moreover, they deal with the secondary law. They study regulations and directives relating to individual and collective labour law and regulations relating to coordination of the systems of social security. The course includes selected case law of the Court of Justice of the EU concerning social policy and coordination of national systems of social security. At the end of this course students will be able to understand the EU law relating to social policy and interpret the process of its implementation in the Czech Labour Law and the Czech Social Security Law.
Learning outcomes
After passing the course a student will be able to describe selected aspects of the EU social policy, identify areas of labour law and social security law governed by EU law and apply legal regulation contained in directly applicable acts of EU law concerning free movement of workers and coordination of social security systems.
Syllabus
  • Definition of the social policy in EU; legal regulation of the social policy in primary law and analysis of provisions of establishing treaties; summary and analysis of regulations and directives concerning individual and collective labour law; regulations concerning free movement of workers and coordination of social security systems.
Literature
    required literature
  • KOMENDOVÁ, Jana. Právo sociálního zabezpečení v právním řádu EU (Social Security Law in the EU Law). In Hůrka Petr, Komendová Jana, Stránský Jaroslav, Smejkal Michal, Halíř Jakub, Kadlubiec Vojtěch, Machálek Petr. Právo sociálního zabezpečení. 1st ed. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk s.r.o., 2023, p. 100-119. ISBN 978-80-7380-912-6. info
  • KOMENDOVÁ, Jana. Základy pracovního práva EU (Essentials of EU Labour Law). 1st ed. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2016, 252 pp. ISBN 978-80-7552-286-3. info
Teaching methods
Lectures with presentation by PowerPoint; discussion relating to the selected topics, interactive syllabi, on line materials, case-law
Assessment methods
Preparation and presentation of selected topic chosen in the topic list published in the interactive syllabi. The presentation shall last 10 - 15 minutes. The presentation shall be download in the homework vaults at least five days before the date of the exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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