21201546 - SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

The course is aimed at deepening the issue of social security and welfare state in a dimension that embraces public and private social security, social assistance, unemployment protection, social safety nets and active policies, and also the issue of occupational safety, the social security protection for work accidents and occupational diseases.
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Mutuazione: 21201546 DIRITTO DELLA SICUREZZA SOCIALE in Mercato del lavoro, relazioni industriali e sistemi di welfare LM-56 CIUCCIOVINO SILVIA

Programme

- Introduction to the study of social security law.
The social security boundaries; the Welfare State origins and development in Europe; social security models. The Italian model and its historical evolution; constitutional principles of security, social security and social assistance (Article 38 of the Constitution); notions of need, risk, solidarity, assistance, welfare, social insurance, social security. The recipients of protection; national and community sources; evolution perspective of the Italian Welfare model. From Welfare to Workfare.
- Social security and welfare.
The legal system of social security; recipients and in need situations that are protected; the contributory system; the legal social security relationship; the pension protection for incapacity of work, old age and death; perspective of pension system reforming; the supplementary private pension; social assistance.
-Health and safety protection and insurance against work accidents.
Health and safety protection at the workplace: constitutional principles and the duty to protect the employer; the evolution of the special legislation on health and safety. Legislative Decree n. 81/2008. The subjects involved in the protection of health and safety: duties, obligations, civil and criminal liability; the prevention and the employer’s responsibility. Insurance legislation against work accidents and occupational diseases: social security protection and limits on the employer's civil liability; work accident and occupational disease; social security benefits; biological damage.
- The unemployment protection and active labor policies.
Social safety nets and income support measures: unemployment benefits; salary supplement payments; protection against the employer’s insolvency; perspective of social safety nets system reforming and the problem of social protection of discontinuous work; the emergence of irregular work. Problems of connection between active and passive policies.


Core Documentation

M. D'Onghia, M Persiani, Fondamenti di diritto della previdenza sociale, Giappichelli, Latest edition

Type of delivery of the course

Lectures; seminars. The teaching activities include, in addition to lectures lasting 2 hours three times a week (for a total of 60 hours) and case study discussions, with the aim of illustrating the application of the matters dealt with.

Attendance

Class attendance is not mandatory, but it is recommended.

Type of evaluation

The final exam consists in an oral interview directly to check the level of learning achieved by students with reference to) to the basic understanding of the regulatory framework; b) illustration capability of institutes with respect to the basis of positive law, theoretical configuration of the same examination as set out in the texts. Questions may cover the entire content of the texts. For the final evaluation of the candidates it’s taken into account both the general language properties and the technical mastery of the concepts and legal terms.