COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 4020 PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GÜLÜMDEN ÜRCAN

Offered to

Public Administration
Public Administration

Course Objective

It s aims to express the basic principles of public servants unions law and to ensure the personnel that employed in public administration dominated by the trade union legislation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to sort principles of organization and service arms of public unions.
2   Being able to distinguish between the public and private union organizations.
3   Being able to explain the trade union guarantees.
4   Being able to explain the issues with examples of court decisions.
5   Being able to classify incomes and expenses of the public unions.
6   Being able to negotiate the resolutions of disputes.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concept of the union, union freedoms, the historical development of public service unions, the right of association in public service in accordance with ILO conventions, the overall presentation of the Law No. 4688
2 Service arms of public unions. Its organization and establishment procedures
3 Organs and tasks of the unions.
4 Meeting times, the number of quorum for decisions, the principles apply to elections.
5 The acquisition and loss of trade union membership, people who cannot be member of union.
6 Confederacy and membership of international organizations7
7 Authorities and activities of unions and confederations, incomes-expenses, administrative and financial control.
8 Mid-term exam
9 Mid-term exam
10 Collective bargaining, the parties, the scope of collective bargaining
11 Conclusion of collective bargaining and the agreed text, the conflict identification
12 Solution of conflict and conciliation committee, and the combination and participate of unions and confederations.
13 Closing of unions and its results.
14 Comparison of the union legislation

Recomended or Required Reading

Anayasa; Kamu Görevlileri Sendikaları Kanunu
Tuncay, A.C., Toplu Iş Hukuku, Istanbul 2010
Gülmez, M., Dünyada Memurlar ve Sendikal Haklar, TODAIE, Ankara 1996
Özer, A., Kamu Çalışanlarının Örgütlenme Sorunu ve Memur Sendikacılığı, Kamu-Iş, Ocak 2000
Kutal, M., Uluslar arası Çalışma Normları Karşısında 4688 Sayılı Kamu Görevlileri Sendikaları Kanunu, MESS Sicil, Eylül 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical lectures. Discussion of current issues. It is done practical excercises to strengthen the theoretical knowledge

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gulumden.urcan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 122

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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