Private Business Law III

Brief description

Collective Bargaining, Shop Agreements, Employment Agreements, Different Types of Employees, Works Council, Working Hours, Vacation, Trade Secrets, Remuneration, Salary, Benefits in Kind, Commissions, Special Payments, Overtime Pay, Inventions Made in the Course of Service, Right to strike, Whistleblowing, Paid Sick Leave, Non-competition Clause, Severance Payments, Termination of Employment, Jurisdiction, Arbitration, Transfer of Business, Hiring.Out of Labour, Cross-Border Secondment of Employees, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Parental Part-Time Employment, Educational Leave, Data Protection, Social Insurance, Unemployment Benefits, Pension Entitlements

Mode of delivery

Präsenzveranstaltung

Type

Pflichtfach

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Laimer, Employment Law – A Basic Primer (2019) NWV
Printed edition of Austrian Labour Law Statutes “KODEX Arbeitsrecht 2022"

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lecture, assignments, student participation, student presentations, brainstorming, legal research, case discussion and analyses, legal writing, contract drafting

Assessment methods and criteria

Written final exam (100%).
Content-related assessment criteria: degree of problem identification and problem characterisation, complexity of the solutions.
Formal criteria: completeness of the answers, task-specific requirements, linguistic differentiation of the presentation of results

Prerequisites and co-requisites

none

Infos

Degree programme

European Economy and Business Management (English)

Cycle

Bachelor

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

English

Curriculum

Full-Time

Academic year

2025

Semester

2 SS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of this course, students can
· explain principles of individual labour law and collective labour law (2),
· argue legally in the field of labour law, both in speaking and in writing (3),
· interpret employment contracts (3),
· analyse and solve practical cases in labour law (4).

Course code

1389-20-01-VZ-DE-18