University master's degrees
University Master's Degree in Social and Labour Rights

Do you want to dedicate yourself to labor and Social Security advice or to the management of human resources or in the Public Administration? Interested in a career in research? This is your Master

Official Master's Degree in Social and Labour Rights

Ideal student profile

The Master’s Degree in Social and Labor Rights at UAB is aimed at university graduates interested in the study of work, business organization, and social protection from a legal and social perspective. It is especially oriented towards those coming from degrees such as Labor Relations, Law, Labor Sciences, Sociology, or similar. The academic record, the relevance of prior education, related professional experience, and personal motivation are valued. It is important that the student has analytical skills, social sensitivity, and commitment to labor justice. In some cases, additional training may be established depending on the candidate’s previous education.

Knowledge

  • Identify the legal foundations of individual and collective labor relations, including the management of the Social Security system.
  • Identify the regulations applicable to the socio-labor framework, addressing aspects such as labor taxation, self-employment, data protection, equality, diversity, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Distinguish rules, legal institutions, and sources of law from a unified and interdisciplinary perspective of the legal system.
  • Identify relevant case law and constitutional doctrine in the socio-labor field.
  • Relate collective conflict in the company, the involved parties, and the available means of resolution, both judicial and extrajudicial.
  • Distinguish the individual employment relationship, its possible modifications and circumstances, as well as the role of collective bargaining in the system of sources of Labor Law.
  • Describe the scope, challenges, and protective actions of the pension system and complementary benefits.

Skills

  1. Apply the regulations governing unitary and trade union representative bodies, as well as collective bargaining models, correctly using the established procedures.
  2. Interpret the functioning of the Social Security system, including complementary systems and their regulation in a transnational context.
  3. Assess the fiscal impact on human resources, considering recent regulatory changes at both domestic and international levels.
  4. Develop legal research projects on labor relations and Social Security, using advanced analysis techniques and scientific methodology.
  5. Conduct socio-labor research, especially within the framework of the master’s thesis, applying interdisciplinary approaches.
  6. Use specialized methodologies and resources to research and generate innovative contributions in the area of specialization.
  7. Resolve specific legal conflicts through the critical application of labor law and well-founded legal reasoning.
  8. Analyze and evaluate the regulations on the individual employment relationship, integrating jurisprudential criteria and considering its regulatory evolution.

Competences

  • Apply socio-labor audit techniques to assess and optimize work-life balance and remuneration systems in personnel management.
  • Use legal tools to ensure regulatory compliance of work-life balance and remuneration policies in the labor sphere.
  • Incorporate human, economic, legal, and ethical dimensions into professional practice.
  • Lead interdisciplinary teams in diverse contexts, fostering cohesion and efficiency in strategic human resources planning and in decision-making regarding recruitment.
  • Create new spaces and areas of action in the labor field, identifying emerging opportunities and developing innovative solutions that promote social inclusion, labor equity, and economic sustainability.
  • Apply systems, technologies, and means for obtaining and disseminating socio-labor information, adapting them to the professional or research context.
  • Analyze gender inequalities in work-life balance and wage remuneration, proposing corrective measures in labor management.
  • Interpret the social, economic, and environmental impact of actions within one’s field of knowledge, integrating these aspects into decision-making.