Certificate of Achievement in Industrial and Employment Relations

15 March - 9 April 2021 The Certificate of Achievement in Industrial and Employment Relations aimed at developing specialized multidisciplinary knowledge in the field of industrial and employment relations from a comparative viewpoint. It provided participants with a theoretical and practical understanding of industrial and employment relations systems in the world, by looking into recent changes and trends in the major economic geographical areas. OBJECTIVES • Reflect upon theoretical approaches and analyse their application to achieve effective industrial and employment relations strategies; • Represent employers or workers in industrial relations, including negotiation, interpretation, and administration of collective agreements and conciliation/mediation procedures; • Apply tools and methodologies for effective labour-management relations at different levels of the economy from enterprise to the national and international level; • Advise government, employers’ and workers’ representatives on industrial and employment relations issues CONTENT • Industrial relations and employment relations: scope and definitions • Varieties of capitalism • Industrial Relations regimes and Corporatism • The State and Governance of Industrial Relations • Varieties of Industrial Relations in Europe • Industrial Democracy • From International Labour Standard adoption to ratification • The ILO supervisory system • Finding International Labour Standard information and resources on the Net • Freedom of association and collective bargaining in the participating countries • The right to strike • Social dialogue: actors, types, levels, scope • Social dialogue preconditions: issues, benefits, and objections • International legal framework and ILO promoting Social Dialogue • Theoretical framework for tripartite social dialogue • National social dialogue institution • Social dialogue and wages • Industrial relations in Argentina • Improving the collection of data on industrial relations for evidence-based policy-making • The benefits of collective bargaining • Collective bargaining and the ILO • Promoting collective bargaining • Collective bargaining framework- ILO standards and guidelines- • Machinery for effective collective bargaining • Labour relations in the public sector • The employment relationship • Industrial relations in Brazil • Industrial relations in the Philippines • Social innovation and sustainable development • Social innovation for future of work • Labour dispute resolution systems • Conciliation/mediation of labour disputes • The management of a labour dispute resolution organization ACHIEVEMENT The course entailed 60 learning hours and the obtainment of 2 credits. The student successfully passed one written exam.