Protection of Personality Rights of the Employee (ÖHDR-387)

Content

Objective

The aim of the course is to gain knowledge about the principle and practice of equality in employment relations, monitoring and surveillance practices in the workplace, protection of the employee's private life, pysicological harassment and sexual harassment within the framework of comparative law and EU law.

Course Content

Topics to be examined:
Within the framework of comparative law and EU law,
-The principle and practice of equality in employment relations
-Monitoring and surveillance applications in the workplace
-Protection of the worker's private living space
-Pysicological and sexual harassment

Course Learning Outcomes

Within the framework of comparative law and EU law, students will be able to master the principles and practice of equality in employment relations, monitoring and surveillance practices in the workplace, protection of the employee's private life, moral harassment and sexual harassment, see how business relations are regulated and improve their legal reasoning skills in this field.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Lecture, practical work, decision review

References

Relevant Supreme Court decisions
ECJ decisions

Weekly Contents

Theory Topics
Week	Weekly Contents
1	Debts Arising from Employment Contract
2	Obligation to Protect the Personality of the Worker
3	Psychological Harassment
4	Sexual harassment
5	Employer's Obligation to Ensure Occupational Health and Safety
6	Protection of Worker's Personal Data
7	Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance Applications
8	Supervising the worker's e-mails
9	Supervising the worker's social media accounts
10	ECHR and CJEU decision reviews
11	ECHR and CJEU decision reviews
12	ECHR and CJEU decision reviews
13	ECHR and CJEU decision reviews
14	ECHR and CJEU decision reviews

Practice Topics
Week	Weekly Contents
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Assessment System

Contribution to Overall Grade
Activities	Number	Contribution
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade	0	40
Contribution of final exam to overall grade	0	60
Total	0	100

In-Term Studies
Activities	Number	Contribution
Assignments	0	0
Presentation	0	0
Midterm Examinations (including preparation)	0	0
Project	0	0
Laboratory	0	0
Other Applications	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Term Paper/ Project	0	0
Portfolio Study	0	0
Reports	0	0
Learning Diary	0	0
Thesis/ Project	0	0
Seminar	0	0
Other	0	0
Total	0	0

Relation of Proficiency

No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	Recognizing positive norms in private law and being able to define and explain the principals of methodology,					X
2	Being able to determine, identify and restate legal problems,					X
3	Being able to use legal interpretation principals in an efficient manner in order to analyze and resolve a legal problem and in order to develop a strategy,					X
4	Being able to conduct academic researches on legal problems and to propose solutions,					X
5	Assuming responsibility individually or collectively for resolving complicated legal problems,					X
6	Being able to criticise positive norms of the law system,					X
7	Being able to explain technical legal knowledge in private law in Turkish, French and English verbally or in writing, being able to report personal opinion concerning a legal problem verbally or in writing in a persuasive manner,					X
8	Being able to follow up the local and international legal literature, to update technical legal knowledge permanently, to use information technology in an efficient manner in order to achieve these goals,					X
9	Being able to conduct comparative academic researches between different law systems,					X
10	Being able to explain and utilize academic study methodologies in order to conduct academic research on a certain legal problem.					X

ECTS

Activities	Number	Period	Total Workload
Working Hours out of Class	5	5	25
Presentation	0	1	0
Final Examinations (including preparation)	1	2	2
Term Paper/ Project	1	10	10
Total Workload			37
Total Workload / 25			1.48
Credits ECTS			1