Instructional goals
The course has as its object the study of the evolution and discipline of social security law
Prerequisites
General knowledge of labor law
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to know and understand the discipline inherent in the social security and welfare system. Knowledge will be acquired through lectures, laboratory activities, such as presentations, exercises related to the drafting of acts, role plays, as well as through the analysis of concrete cases and testimonies.
Knowledge will be verified through the results of laboratory activities, classroom discussions, as well as the final exam.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: students - acquiring the correct tools and method - will be able to interpret and apply, even with respect to concrete cases, the principles and institutions of social security law. Students, therefore, will be able to apply to concrete situations, such as, by way of example, the imposition of the contribution obligation, the activation of social safety nets, the results of a non-compliance with contributions, the occurrence of an accident on the work, the knowledge acquired during the course. Active participation in lessons and laboratory activities will allow students to verify in real time the skills acquired.
Autonomy of judgment: Through the use of the methodologies acquired during the course, students will be able to collect data and materials to analyze the regulatory sources and the relevant guidelines in doctrine and jurisprudence with reference to the discipline of social security law and will acquire the ability to independently evaluate such data by formulating its own critical judgment on the application of them to concrete cases, identifying the appropriate solutions to the practical cases submitted to the relative attention. These skills are verified not only by passing the final exam, but also by actively participating in the lessons and laboratory activities.
Communication skills: At the end of the course, students will be able to master, with adequate terminological precision, the technical-legal vocabulary of the social security subject. By participating in the various activities of the course - and in particular the laboratory activities - students will learn to put these communication skills into practice in different contexts, adapting the vocabulary using the reference interlocutor, thus acquiring additional rhetorical and argumentative skills, essential for your career path.
Learning skills: The technical-legal knowledge acquired during the course will allow the student to autonomously understand and interpret the legislative, doctrinal and jurisprudential changes referring to the discipline of the law of. Students will develop a solid knowledge of the fundamental aspects of the subject that will allow them to continue to deepen the topics addressed independently and to undertake the various post-graduate professional training courses.
Course Contents
Learning skills: The technical-legal knowledge acquired during the course will allow the student to autonomously understand and interpret the legislative, doctrinal and jurisprudential changes referring to the discipline of the law of. Students will develop a solid knowledge of the fundamental aspects of the subject that will allow them to continue to deepen the topics addressed independently and to undertake the various post-graduate professional training courses.
Reference Books
Pessi R., Lezioni di diritto della previdenza social, Cedam, latest edition (or, alternatively, Persiani M., M. D'Onghia, Fondamenti di diritto della previdenza sociale, Giappichelli,latest edition)
Teaching Methods
Learning: lectures and autonomous exercises or "guided" by the teachers in the classroom
Practice: expert guests and practical simulations
Survey: analysis of different ideas and solutions
Collaboration: work in small groups, discussion of the results of others and proposal of common results
Discussion: seminars, group discussions, forum online
Production: reports, presentations, proceedings and opinions
Assessment Method
- participation in lessons 20% - preparation of papers and reports 60% - final exam 20%
Thesis assignment criteria
Interest in the subject
Week 1
The welfare state and social security, chapter I; The notion of social security, chapter I; social security systems and mental order models, chap. I Global economic crisis and welfare, chap. I; the Italian constitutional model, chap. I, discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 2
The welfare state and social security, chapter I; The notion of social security, chapter I; social security systems and mental order models, chap. I Global economic crisis and welfare, chap. I; the Italian constitutional model, chap. I, discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies. The birth and evolution of the Italian social security system, chap. II; The Constitution and welfare, chap. III; Economic planning and consultation, chap. IV; The pension model from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the entry into the Euro, cap. V; The pension model in the global financial market crisis and in the Covid crisis, chap. VI; discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 3
The legal system of assistance and social security, chap. VI; the system of national and international sources, chap. VI; the payment systems and the subjects protected in the social security relationship, chap. VI. The legal system and the Constitutional Court, chap. VI; discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 4
The contributory obligation and financing, chap. VIII; the nature of the contributory obligation, chap. VIII; Fulfillment of the contribution obligation, chap. VIII; The subjects of the contributory obligation, chap. VIII. The modulation of contribution obligations, chap. VIII; The tax base and the calculation of the contribution, chap. VIII; Protection of the beneficiary and the events of the obligation, chap. VIII; discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 5
Establishment and development of the social security relationship, chap. IX; Preservation of the relationship and completion of the case, chap. IX; The social security benefit, chap. IX. Completion of the case in point and options of the protected subject, chap. IX; Adequacy and correspondence, chap. IX; discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 6
Social security and sickness , chap. X; Social security report and family income, cap. X; Social security relationship and disability / incapacity from common risks, chap. X; Social security and maternity report, cap X; Social security report and domestic accident cap X; discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 7
Social security and accident at work, chap. X; social security relationship and occupational disease, chap. X Accidents at work and occupational diseases - discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 8
Labor market and social safety nets; chapter XI; Social security relationship and insolvency of the employer, chap. XI Social security and unemployment report cap XI; Social security report and salary supplements, cap XI; discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 9
Social security report and accident at work, chap. X; social security relationship and occupational disease, chap. X Accidents at work and occupational diseases - discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 10
Constitutional placement of supplementary pensions and regulations, chap. XIII; The structure of the founding sources of pension funds, chap. XIII; The management of pension funds and controls, chap. XIII. Financing of supplementary pension forms, chap. XIII; Services, advances, amending events, chap. XIII; discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 11
Social assistance and constitutional model, chap. XIV; social security and substitute assistance, chap. XIV; Identity and distinctions of the areas of protection, chap. XIV. Measures to support family responsibilities, chap. XIV; citizenship income and social exclusion, chap. XIV; discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.
Week 12
Social security and Covid emergency; accident protection; changes to the social safety nets model; the integration of welfare services. Social security and Covid emergency - discussion of concrete cases, realization of laboratory activities, testimonies.