After completing the course, you:
- have gained insight into the main (global) developments and challenges in employment relations and labour market institutions;
- understand how these developments and challenges can be analyzed from legal, socio-economic, socio-political, and philosophical perspectives;
- are able to critically reflect on the relevant disciplinary perspectives and engage in a multidisciplinary dialogue;
- have improved your reasoning, writing and presentation skills.
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Work is all around us. Labour relations are the key building block for national and international social and economic development and the distribution of (economic) resources. They determine important societal conditions, such as inequality, employment, productivity growth, social cohesion, health and quality of life. Present global and economic developments have fundamentally changed the position of employees within organizations and the labour market at large. These developments lead to an increasing 'precarization' of working conditions for more and more workers. Think, for example, of platform workers and self-employment persons without personnel.
The developments have triggered debates on how legislation and labour market institutions should adapt. Trade unions, employers and other stakeholders explicitly call for more modern forms of employee representation, dispute resolution, and the regulation of atypical work. The course examines five main questions related to labour relations and labour market institutions:
1. What are the main global challenges to employment relations and labour market institutions?
2. How does current national/EU labour law affect social and economic conditions?
3. How do increasing insecurity and unpredictability affect our daily lives both at a practical and an existential level?
4. What are fair and durable social and economic conditions? What normative idea of fairness should inform future labour market policies and institutions?
5. Based on legal and socio-economic scientific research, how can labour market institutions adapt economic outcomes?
During the course students will discuss questions 1-5 from the three different disciplines: legal, social-economic and philosophical. This will take place through lectures and interactive seminars in which we will focus on the increasing precarization of workers on the labour market. Next to this, students will integrate the disciplinary perspectives on a problem with regard to the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the labour market. More specifically, students will be working on a case study in multidisciplinary groups (group assignment).
Please note: if you are following the Master after having completed the pre-master (after HBO Law), you can only take this course as an extra-curricular course. Therefore this course does not count towards the obligatory 42 EC of Master courses.
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DUTCH AND FOREIGN STUDENTS: You must have successfully completed a Bachelor to be admitted to this course. A good command of English is required. WARNING: the Faculty of Law probably uses other registration deadlines than other faculties. Registration should be done within the period of the Faculty of Law. For more information, see the website www.ru.nl/rechten/studenten.
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| The final grade consists of two parts. First part (50% of final grade) is the grade for the group assignment. The paper needs to be handed in at the end of December. Next to this, the students are asked to deliver an oral presentation about their findings with takes place in January​ 2023. Next to the paper and oral presentation, students have to prepare at least 4 out of 6 seminars by making an individual assignment (50% of final grade). The average of these individual assignments is also part of the final mark. |
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Students are expected to attend at least 10 out of 12 lectures/seminars of the course. Only when this requirement is met, students can pass this course.
Please note: if you are following the Master after having completed the pre-master (after HBO Law), you can only take this course as an extra-curricular course. Therefore this course does not count towards the obligatory 42 EC of Master courses.
Students of the Nijmegen School of Management take this course for 6 EC, and students of the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies take this course for 10 EC.
Contact information:
With questions about the content of the course, please contact prof. mr. F.G. Laagland (femke.laagland@ru.nl).
Questions about organizational aspects can be addressed to the secretary Mrs. Annemarie Gerrits-Artz: 0031 24 3615488, email: annemarie.gerrits-artz@ru.nl.
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