Human Resources Management and Labour Law

3 ECTS / Semester / Portuguese

Learning outcomes

This course combines themes from Human Resources Management and Labor Law to characterize the professional life cycle of workers.
From the perspective of Human Resources Management, it focuses on the main organizational policies and practices that contribute to organizations gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage through their employees. The contents are based on scientific evidence in Human Resources Management and Work and Organizational Psychology.
The legal-labor dimension of the course aims to deepen knowledge of Labor Law, with a focus on practical application in a business context, covering various phases of the employment relationship, from formation to termination. It assumes the management of a complex organizational structure, considering the coexistence of multiple employment bonds while maintaining an objective standard of relative justice. 


Programmatic contents

Human Resources Management:

  • Work analysis
  • Competency management models
  • Recruitment, selection, and integration
  • Diversity management
  • Training and development
  • Performance management and feedback

Labor Law:

  • Formation of the employment contract: Distinction between employment contracts and service contracts: “New challenges”
  • Contractual vicissitudes – Economic unit transfer: “How to implement the  regime?”
  • Differentiated treatment and labor implications
  • Termination of the employment contract – Collective dismissal and job  extinction: “Post-Troika issues”

Faculty

Professor of Law
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon School), has a Ph.D. in Private Law from the Faculty of Law of the Nova…
Cláudia Simão holds a PhD in Experimental Social Psychology from Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and is an Invited Assistant Professor at CATÓLICA-LISBON…