WINTER SEMESTER (OCTOBER - FEBRUARY):
Anti-discrimination Employment Law and Social Security Law

TIME SCHEDULE, LIST OF UNITS AND READING MATERIALS - WINTER SEMESTER 2021/22

Time and venue:

 

  • Lectures are held Mondays, from  9:00 - 11.00 a.m. in the hall No. 2, Ćirilometodska 4 (Upper Town).

Important note:

  • The assessment of knowledge and understanding is by oral exam held at the end of semester (24 January 2022, Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ivana Grgurev) or by presentation of students’ paper (deadline for students' paper is 14th January 2022).
  • All students are required to attend the scheduled oral exam (24 January 2022). Those students who wrote a student paper shall prepare a short presentation of the respective student paper (duration approx. 5 minutes), with or without PowerPoint presentation.

Time and venue

Title of the lecture and reading materials

Monday, 11 October 2021,

9:00- 11:00 a.m.,

 

Introduction, reading lists, students responsibilities, selection of exam type (paper or oral exam)

 

International sources of anti-discrimination law

 

Reading material:

 

Monday, 18 October 2021,

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

 

Development of EU law and policy on equality

Reading material:

Monday, 25 October 2021,

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

The key terms (direct and indirect discrimination, harassment etc.), 

 

Reading material:

 

Monday, 1 November 2021 There is no class due to the public holiday.

Monday, 8 November 2021,

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.,

 

Discrimination based on Religion or Belief

 

Reading material:

 - Achbita C-157/15

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=9ea7d0f130d591bc2bd633c74bc5abf0cad1d5a9ce72.e34KaxiLc3eQc40LaxqMbN4PaNaKe0?text=&docid=188852&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=188571

- Bougnaoui C-188/15

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=188853&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=188881

- Egenberger C-414/16

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=9ea7d0f130de27e7a5f306ff457fac568b1d303c6ae2.e34KaxiLc3eQc40LaxqMbN4Pb38Se0?text=&docid=201148&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=563498

- IR v JQ C-68/17

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=205521&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=495429

Monday, 15 November 2021 There is no class due to the autumn examination week.

Monday, 22 November 2021

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Equal Pay

 

Reading material:

  • Barnard, Catherine. Equal Pay, in: EU Employment Law, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 297-335
  • Bell, Mark; Numhauser-Henning. Equal Pay between Women and Men, in: European Labour Law (Eds. Jaspers, T.; Pennings, F.; Peters, S.), Intersentia, 2019, p.166-170

Monday, 29 November 2021

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Age Discrimination

Reading material:

Monday, 6 December 2021

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.,

 

Disability Discrimination

 

Reading material:

Monday, 13 December 2021,

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Remedies

Reading material:

  • Draehmpaehl C-180/95
  • Marshall C-271/91
  • Firma Feryn C-54/07
  • Meister C-415/10
  • ACCEPT C-81/12
  • Kratzer C-423/15

The selected case law please find via search form of the Court of Justice: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/recherche.jsf?language=en&jur=C,T,F&td=ALL

Monday, 20 December 2021,

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.


 

Family friendly policies

 

Reading material:

Monday, 10 January 2022

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Discrimination in digital era - AI and discrimination

Reading material:

https://www.cloisters.com/blogs/algorithms-apps-artificial-intelligence-the-next-frontier-in-discrimination-law

Monday, 17 January 2022,

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Discrimination in the area of social security

 

Reading material:

  • Caterine Barnard, Equal treatment in respect of social security and pensions, in: EU Employment Law, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 455-498

 

Monday, 24 January 2022,

9:00 a.m.

 

  • Presentation of student's papers
  • Oral examat 9.00 a.m.