Labour and Social Segurity Law 2
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Other languages of instruction: Catalan
| Sem.1 | FR | 10:00 12:00 | b504 |
Head instructor
Lda. Isabel RUIZDELGADO - isabelr@uic.es
Office hours
The teacher will assist the student when he asks for it through an email.
The legislation on Social Security has acquired a volume and complexity that requires a specific study within the most generic subject of Labor Law. This course examines the Social Security system in Spain and the dynamics of the different benefits within
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The student must obtain clear notions of the complex Social Security system and its main benefits. This will serve as a tool for updating and implementing ever evolving regulations.
1. Know and understand the organization of the Social Security system
2. Gain solid knowledge of the frame in the system of Social Security of companies and workers
3. Know and understand the different types of social security benefits
4. Develop the ability to keep track of administrative files placed at the various Social Security agencies
5. Develop the capacity to solve practical cases related to this subject using both the provided material and the material obtained during the course of the study.
6. Look for information, interpret it and use it for the resolution of practical cases or while carrying out work related to this matter
7. Identify and interpret everyday documentation in the field of labor law
UNIT 1.- Introduction to the concept of Social Security.
UNIT 2.-Social Security in Spain.
2.1 Historical evolution.
2.2 The Social Security and the Spanish Constitution.
2.3 Distribution of powers between State and Autonomous Communities.
2.4 Sources of Social Security.
UNIT 3.- Scope of the Social Security.
3.1 Personal and territorial criteria.
3.2 Professional criteria.
3.2.1 The General Scheme
3.2.2 The Special Regimes
UNIT 4 .- The management of Social Security
4.1 The managing entities and the common services of the Social Security.
4.2 Entities that cooperate in the management.
4.2.1 Mutual of Occupational Accidents and Occupational Diseases of Social Security.
4.2.2 The collaboration of companies.
UNIT 5.- Acts of framing.
5.1. Registration of companies.
5.2. Membership.
5.3. The register or discharge and assimilated situations
5.4. The cancellation or un-subscription
UNIT 6.- Social Security financing
6.1. Quotation system and tax system.
6.2. The contribution to the Social Security in Spain
6.2.1. Concept
6.2.2. The obligation to quote.
6.2.3. Special assumptions.
6.2.4. Bonuses and reductions.
6.3. The collection of the quota.
6.3.1. Voluntary compliance.
6.3.2. Executive collection.
UNIT 7.- Protective Action
7.1. Protected contingencies.
7.2. Professional contingencies.
7.2.1. Work accident.
7.2.2. Occupational disease.
7.3. Common contingencies.
7.4. The qualification of the contingency.
UNIT 8.- Benefits.
8.1. Concept and requirements.
8.2. Guarantee of benefits.
8.3. Responsibility in relation to the benefits.
8.3.1 Assumptions.
8.3.2. Principle of automaticity of benefits
8.4. The surcharges of benefits.
UNIT 9.- Health benefits.
9.1 Concept and protected subjects.
9.2. Content.
9.3. Dynamics of law.
9.3.1. Birth, duration and extinction.
9.3.2. Assumption of reimbursement of medical expenses.
9.4. Management.
UNIT 10.- Temporary incapacity.
10.1. Concept and requirements.
10.2. Content and dynamics of the provision.
UNIT 11.- Benefit for care of the minor, risk during pregnancy and risk during natural lactation
11.1. Birth and care of the minor
11.3. Risk during pregnancy and during natural lactation
UNIT 12.- Permanent disability.
12.1. Concept and requirements.
12.2. Content and dynamic of the benefit.
UNIT 13.- Retirement.
13.1. Concept and requirements.
13.2. Content and dynamic of the benefit.
UNIT 14.- Protection for death and survival.
14. 1. Concept and requirements.
14.2. Widowhood.
14.3. Orphan hood.
14.4. Benefits for family members.
14.5. Lump sum payments.
UNIT 15.- Unemployment.
15.1. Concept and protected situations.
15.2. Contributory level.
15.3. Level of care.
15.4. Management, financing, payment and control.
UNIT 16.- Social Security welfare protection.
18.1. Non-contributory pensions.
18.2. Social Assistance and Social Services.
Blasco Lahoz, José Francisco and López Gandía, Juan. Social Security Course. Editorial Tirant lo Blanch. Last edition
García NInet, J. Ignacio, García Viña, Jordi and Vicente Palacio, Arántzazu. Basic Manual of Social Security. Ed Atelier
Basic Social Legislation. Ed Civitas. (or any compendium of social legislation by another publisher)