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Subject type: Basic

Coordinator: Judith Turrión Prats

Trimester: Second and third quarters

Credits: 8

Teaching staff: 

Lourdes Maria Montoro Del Valle

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 2

Languages ​​of instruction

  • Catalan

All recommended bibliography must be consulted in the latest editions from 2025.

 

Competencies / Learning Outcomes

Basic skills

  • CB4. That students can convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.

  • CB5. That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

  • CE6. Interpret legal regulations and institutional organization and manage business information.

General competencies

  • CG1. Be able to work in a team, actively participate in tasks and negotiate in the face of dissenting opinions until reaching consensus positions, thus acquiring the ability to learn together with other team members and create new knowledge.

  • CG3. Integrate the values ​​of social justice, equality between men and women, equal opportunities for all and especially for people with disabilities, so that the studies of Business Administration and Innovation Management contribute to to train citizens for a just, democratic society based on a culture of dialogue and peace.

Transversal competences

  • CT1. Communicate properly orally and in writing in the two official languages ​​of Catalonia.

  • CT2. Show willingness to learn about new cultures, experiment with new methodologies and encourage international exchange.

  • CT3. Demonstrate entrepreneurial leadership and management skills that strengthen personal confidence and reduce risk aversion.

  • CT4. Master computer tools and their main applications for ordinary academic and professional activity.

  • CT5. Develop tasks applying the acquired knowledge with flexibility and creativity and adapting them to new contexts and situations.

Presentation of the subject

The course puts the student in contact with the basic legal notions, as well as the legal terminology in the field of commercial and labor law.

Apply commercial and labor legislation in practical cases found in economic and legal reality.

Observe the law as a social instrument that limits legal relationships and businesses of a mercantile and labor nature.

Remember:

"The classroom (physical or virtual) is a safe space, free of sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and discriminatory attitudes, either towards the students or towards the teachers. We trust that together we can create a space safe where we can make mistakes and learn without having to suffer prejudice from others." 

Contents

COMMERCIAL LAW (2ND QUARTER)

SUBJECT 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE BUSINESS LAW.

1.1 BUSINESS LAW IN A WIDE AND STRICT SENSE.

1.2 COMMERCIAL LAW AS AN AXIS OF BUSINESS LAW.

SUBJECT 2: THE COMMERCIAL ENTREPRENEUR.

2.1 INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEUR

2.2 NON-COMMERCIAL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR.

2.3 COMMERCIAL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR.

2.4 THE COMMERCIAL REGISTER

SUBJECT 3: THE COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS.

3.1 DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTICS.

3.2 THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS.

SUBJECT 4: MERCHANT COMPANIES.

4.1 ANALYSIS OF THE LAW OF CAPITAL COMPANIES.

4.2 THE JOINT STOCK COMPANY.

4.3 THE LIMITED COMPANY.

4.4 DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES.

SUBJECT 5: THE CONTEST OF CREDITORS.

5.1 ANALYSIS OF THE BANKRUPTCY LAW.

5.2 KNOWLEDGE OF THE BANKRUPTCY PROCEDURE.

SUBJECT 6: THE BUSINESS COMPETITION.

6.1 ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL RULES THAT REGULATE BUSINESS COMPETENCE.

SUBJECT 7: THE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY AND THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

7.1 ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL RULES GOVERNING INDUSTRIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

SUBJECT 8: THE COMPANY AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

8.1 ANALYSIS OF CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS APPLIED TO THE COMPANY.

 

LABOR LAW (3rd QUARTER)

SUBJECT 1 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW:

1.1 LABOR LAW

1.2 THE SOURCES OF LABOR LAW

1.3 THE PRINCIPLES OF APPLICATION OF LABOR LAW

1.4 THE LABOR ADMINISTRATION

1.5 LABOR JURISDICTION

UNIT 2 THE COLLECTIVE LABOR RELATIONSHIP:

2.1 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

2.2 COLLECTIVE CONFLICTS

2.3 THE STRIKE

2.4 THE CLOSURE OF THE COMPANY.

2.5 WORKERS 'REPRESENTATIVES

 

SUBJECT 3 THE INDIVIDUAL LABOR RELATIONSHIP:

3.1 CONCEPT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

3.2 ELEMENTS OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

3.3 THE SUBJECTS OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

3.4 WORKS EXCLUDED FROM LABOR LEGISLATION

3.5 SPECIAL LABOR RELATIONS

3.6 BASIC ASPECTS OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

3.7 CLASSIFICATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

3.8 SUBSTANTIAL MODIFICATIONS OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

3.9 SUSPENSION OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

310 TERMINATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

 

SUBJECT 4 THE SALARY

4.1 THE SALARY: SALARY AND NON-SALARY CONCEPTS

4.2 THE PAYROLL.

4.3 THE DISCHARGE.

 

SUBJECT 5 THE SOCIAL SECURITY:

5.1 THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

5.2 SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEMES

5.3 ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY

5.4 OBLIGATIONS OF THE EMPLOYER WITH SOCIAL SECURITY

5.6 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

Activities and evaluation system

The business law subject is 8 ECTS credits and its final assessment is carried out in the third term.

It consists of two parts: Mercantile second quarter and Labor third quarter.

 

PARTS OF THE CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT:

60% of the grade will be obtained from the quarterly exam which will consist of test-type questions / short open questions.

40% of the grade will be obtained from the completion of practical cases, questionnaires, and work always carried out in a work team. This practical part will be carried out during the two quarters through seminars with mandatory attendance following the time arrangement of the quarterly calendar.  

2nd partial quarter, commercial part of an eliminatory nature, students who pass with a minimum score of 5 out of 10, will eliminate this part in the third quarter.

There is NO recovery in the second trimester.

 

3rd term two types of exam

Final exam of both parts for those who did not eliminate the commercial part in the second quarter, students must pass with a minimum score of 5 out of 10, to add the continuous assessment part.

Final exam labor part for those students who passed and eliminated the mercantile part in the 2nd term.

The evaluation of the subject will be made up of the average between the mark obtained in the commercial and labor parts.

 

RECOVERY EXAMS:

Examination of both parts for those who have completed all of the subject in the June call

Labor part exam for those who have this part suspended in the June call

In the event of failing the subject, only the parts corresponding to the final exams (60% of each quarter) will be able to be recovered; the grade for the activities carried out during the course of the parts approved in the seminars will be kept. Minimum grade of the recovery test must be 5 out of 10.

 

A student who has not applied for the first call CANNOT apply for recovery.

Any form of academic fraud will be sanctioned in accordance with the center's assessment regulations. If signs of fraud are detected, including the improper use of generative artificial intelligence tools, the subject's teaching staff may call the student for an individual interview with the aim of verifying their authorship.

Bibliography

Basic

Notes on Commercial Law. Aranzadi. - Alberto Brercovitz Rodriguez Cano.

Calzada Conde, María Angeles; E. Villa and E. López. Basic trading companies. Pamplona, ​​Editorial Aranzadi, 2007 (KKT1050 / C35)

Code of Commerce and Other Commercial Regulations. Ed. Thomson Aranzadi. Ramon B. Garcia Luengo AND OTHERS. Latest edition. 

Labor law course. Tirant lo Blanch manuals. Director Juan M. Ramírez Martínez. latest editions. 

Labor law. Alfredo Montonya Melgar. Editorial Tecnos.   

Commercial law. Volumes I and II Marcial Pons. Guillermo Jimenez Sanchez.

Introduction to Commercial Law. Pull the White. Francisco Vicent Chuliá.

Manual of Commercial Law. Volumes I and II Tecnos. Latest edition.

SALA FRANCO (coord), Labor Law Course. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia. Last edition

Complementary

Aguilar Rubio, Marina. Tax credit and bankruptcy. Madrid, Editorial Wolters Kluwer, 2009 (KKT1942 / A48

MERCADER UGUINA, Labor law, new technologies and the information society. Lex Nova, Valladolid, 2002.

Practical reminder Francis Lefebvre. Bankruptcy. Latest editions. Minimum 2025

Practical reminder Francis Lefebvre. Mercantile Societies. Latest editions. Minimum May 2025

Practical reminder Francis Lefebvre. Limited companies. Latest editions. Minimum May 2025.

www.europa.eu

 

www.gencat.cat/treball

www.mtas.es

www.seg-social.es

www.sepe.es

 

Commercial register.
The commercial registrar.
Bankruptcy Website. Notaries.