Seminar - Social security law 2200-1M024

The aim of the seminar is to gain and strengthen knowledge regarding selected social security law issues, including the matters suggested by the participants.

The following issues are to be covered:
1. The scope and methods of social security law; methods of social protection; distinction of terms such as social security, social protection, social insurance, social support, social welfare.
2. International standards of social security and their influence on interpreting and applying the Polish social law.
3. Techniques and methods of regulation used depending on the benefits kind and function.
4. Personal scope of social security law.
5. Overlapping of duties and rights.
6. Social insurance contributions and other contributions in social security – kinds, financing, methods of calculating and paying.
7. Non-contributory methods of financing social security benefits.
8. Legal systems of social protection, including for example: social insurance system, health insurance, state social pensions, employers’ social activity, employment promotion and unemployment benefits, family benefits, other income support benefits, child-raising benefits, housing allowances, alimony support, benefits for disabled persons and for their carers, social aid.
9. Classification of benefits.
10. Some elements of procedures regarding contributions, benefits and their payment.
In order to gain and strengthen the knowledge and to help to prepare a bachelor’s thesis the rules of scientific writing will be reminded, as well as selected problems of social law will be discussed on the basis of legal acts and other reading. It aims to improve the skills of interpreting and applying social law and analysing and critical assessment of legal literature in this filed.
The matters related to the methodology of preparing a master’s thesis and its plan are discussed.

Type of course

Master's seminars

Mode

Blended learning
Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

That is why before the course, the Student should: - know the constitutional frame of the system of social security, social benefits and public duties; - know the methods of interpreting legal acts and the forms of activity of public administration; - recognise employment forms used in practice and the reasons of their use resulting from the social situation and public duties.

Course coordinators

Dorota Dzienisiuk

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student knows the principles of searching for the appropriate legal acts and provisions of various ranks containing rules on social relations within the field of social law.
The student can co-operate and work in groups assuming various roles and adopting the point of view, in particular the student is able to recognise principal relations among various persons active in the legislative process and in applying social law.
The student uses normative systems and selected norms in a proper way in order to solve individual cases related to interpreting and applying social law; the student can recognise separate groups of persons entitled to benefits and relations among the scope and methods of granting benefits and financing of those benefits; the students is able to delimit forms of employment and knows consequences of choosing one of them for the duties and rights of the parties; the student observes the relation between a gainful activity and the right to social benefits.
The student recognises the social law development trends, including the
relations among various methods and forms. The student is able to indicate axiological and practical interpretation dilemmas, in particular the choice of the scope and amount of benefits related to the financing methods and constitutional and international base.

Assessment criteria

Assessment is based on various critera including
- presence,
- active participation,
- progress in preparing bachelor's thesis.

Practical placement

Bibliography

a) Basic reading
The most recent available edition of:
W. Muszalski, Prawo socjalne
J. Jończyk, Prawo zabezpieczenia społecznego
M. Lewandowicz-Machnikowska, Regulacja prawna socjalnego wsparcia dla osób o niskich dochodach
M. Ratajczak, Pomoc społeczna. Wybrane instytucje pomocy rodzinie i dziecku

b) Additional reading
To be indicated during the course.

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

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