Learning objectives
After working through this chapter, students
04.01–04.02
- know the difference between «labour law» and «employment law», the three parties in labour relations (tripartite) and the hierarchy of labour rules, with Switzerland as example;
- understand how an ILO Convention becomes national law (ratification, reporting, NORMLEX) and are able to check the ratifications of any country;
- know how work changed from family businesses to factories, freelancing and platform work, and why labour law came into being.
04.03–04.04
- know the ILO: its origin, mission, tripartite structure, three main bodies and supervisory system, and why its power lies in publicity;
- know the difference between Conventions and Recommendations and the ten fundamental Conventions, and are able to find where a Convention is implemented in national law;
- know the most important other ILO standards (working time, wages, termination, maternity, migrant workers).
04.05–04.06
- know the legal difference between employment and freelancing (control, integration, entrepreneurial risk) and its most important consequence, social security contributions;
- are able to decide in a practical case – also with a chatbot – at which point a freelancer becomes an employee;
- know how courts, the EU and the ILO qualify platform workers (Uber), and understand why a court decision can move the share price of a company and what a start-up can and cannot lose when the law catches up.
Assessment
intla.ch gives you the knowledge; class trains the skill that the assessment tests: applying the law to a case with AI tools. Go to the intla.ch Tutor and have it quiz you on the learned content (see also Chapter 01.T intla.ch Tutor).