ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
LAW3312 | Collective Employment Relations Law | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. FATMA BURCU SAVAŞ |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Assoc. Prof. FATMA BURCU SAVAŞ |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | Students of Engineering Department mostly become employer’s representatives and interact with blue collar workers when they begin to work as a white collar-worker. On the other hand, they will subject to their contract and Labour Law Nr. 4857 as an employer. Therefore aim of the course is to give students the basic knowledge about these topics. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Defines the fundamental concepts of the Collective Labour Law such as employee, employer and representative of the employer. II. Examines the rights of labour union against the employers or employer associations and vice versa. III. Determines the methods of regulating the working conditions between social parties and their applications in practice. Evaluates the differences between the conflict of right and the conflict of interest. IV. Determines the types of collective bargaining agreement and analyzes the conditions of each type. V. Examines the collective rights of the workers and the right to strike. VI. Examines the collective rights of the employers and the right to lock-out. VII. Analyzes the public interest in finding peaceful solutions to the conflicts between social parties by applying the instruments of collective bargaining (strike/lock-out) according to the rule of parity of arms. VIII. Compares the comparative legal regulations and domestic legal regulations. |
1. Week : Trade Unions: Concept and Historical Background, Definiton and Components, Concept of Collective Rights 2. Week : Trade Union and Employer Association Membership: Conditions, Rights and Obligations, Assurances, Activities 3. Week : Right and Autonomy of Collective Bargaining, Definition, Content and Legal Essence 4. Week : Types of Collective Bargaining Agreements 5. Week : Competence and Authorization for Collective Bargaining, Denial of Authorization, Call for Collective Bargaining and Collective Bargaining Process 6. Week : Practical Course 7. Week : Provisions of Collective Bargaining Agreement and its Scope Based on Individuals 8. Week : Scope of Collective Bargaining Agreement Based on Location and Duration, Revisions, Applications, Invalidity and Cancellation of Collective Bargaining Agreement 9. Week : Mid-Term Exam 10. Week : Concept and Types of Collective Bargaining Conflict 11. Week : Concept of Mediation and Conciliation and Arbitration: Ordinary Mediation, Extra-Ordinary Mediation and Arbitration (Voluntary and Compulsory) and Critics of the System 12. Week : Strike: Problem of Equivalence of Strike and Lock-Out, Components and Consequences of Lawful Strike 13. Week : Lock-Out: Definition and Components of Lock-Out, Components and Consequences of Lawful Lock-Out 14. Week : Types and Consequences of Unlawful Strike and Lock-Out 15. Week : Termination of Lawful Strike and Lock-Out |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Trade Unions: Concept and Historical Background, Definiton and Components, Concept of Collective Rights | |
2) | Trade Union and Employer Association Membership: Conditions, Rights and Obligations, Assurances, Activities | |
3) | Right and Autonomy of Collective Bargaining, Definition, Content and Legal Essence | |
4) | Types of Collective Bargaining Agreements | |
5) | Competence and Authorization for Collective Bargaining, Denial of Authorization, Call for Collective Bargaining and Collective Bargaining Process | |
6) | Practical Course | |
7) | Provisions of Collective Bargaining Agreement and its Scope Based on Individuals | |
8) | Scope of Collective Bargaining Agreement Based on Location and Duration, Revisions, Applications, Invalidity and Cancellation of Collective Bargaining Agreement | |
9) | Concept and Types of Collective Bargaining Conflict | |
10) | Concept of Mediation and Conciliation and Arbitration: Ordinary Mediation, Extra-Ordinary Mediation and Arbitration (Voluntary and Compulsory) and Critics of the System | |
11) | Strike: Problem of Equivalence of Strike and Lock-Out, Components and Consequences of Lawful Strike | |
12) | Lock-Out: Definition and Components of Lock-Out, Components and Consequences of Lawful Lock-Out | |
13) | Types and Consequences of Unlawful Strike and Lock-Out | |
14) | Termination of Lawful Strike and Lock-Out |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Tankut Centel/Murat Demircioğlu, İş Hukuku,Beta Yayınları, İstanbul 2013. Haluk Hadi Sümer, İş Hukuku, Mimoza Yayınları, Konya 2011. Ercan Akyiğit, İş Hukuku, Seçkin Yayınları, Ankara 2010. |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 70 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 30 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 70 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 16 | 32 |
Application | 1 | 2 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 60 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 |
Final | 1 | 3 |
Total Workload | 100 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |