The Lifelong learning master's degree in Labour and Social Security Law structures its curriculum in 3 large areas that revolve around the subjects of procedural law, labour law and the right to social security, and give the students the necessary experience for accessing numerous companies and offices in the judicial environment.
According to possible legislature developments in Spain, the final program and the methodology that allows us to reach the end of the Master can be slightly different.
Note: The language of the program will be mainly Spanish, although approximately 20% of the classes will be done in Catalan. Therefore, a knowledge of Catalan is required at the level of understanding.
Once you have passed the program, you will receive the following electronic degree certification (eTítulo©): Lifelong learning master's degree in Labour Law and Spanish Public Health System, awarded by Pompeu Fabra University. The eTítulo© will be issued in Catalan, Spanish and English.
The electronic degree certification (eTítulo© ) is an authentic digital degree, issued in pdf format and electronically signed, with the same legal validity as if it were in paper format.
The Master in Labour and Social Security Law also includes the possibility of participating in practical activities and activities for personal and professional growth such as:
- UPF-BSM Inside: is a group of interdisciplinary subjects (applied data, communication, creativity, innovation and project management, sustainability and leadership among others) that, if you take this program, you can access at no additional cost. They are 100% online and you can take them throughout the academic year at your own pace, as they have been designed as self-study subjects.
To access the places for enrolment in the Master in Labour and Social Security Law, you need to be a lawyer, graduate or higher graduate with a university degree.
Those participants who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic director, if necessary.
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
The Master in Labour and Social Security Law brings together legal professionals in each course, together with lawyers who wish to specialize in this branch of Law and labour disputes in companies. Throughout the program of the master, students will be trained to continue their career in the professional market as specialists in labour legal assessment.
* Important: Approximately 20% of the sessions of this program can be taught in Catalan.
This lifelong learning university training is characterized, mainly, by offering students a very complete syllabus concerning labour law that goes beyond simple updating, complementation, or review, training specialists in the social branch of law and the labour market. The program aims to train lawyers specialized in Labour and Social Security Law and, therefore, is different from other programs in Human Resources, labour relations, social promotion, or business advice in general.
Throughout the subjects of the master, you will learn labour, collective bargaining, work, and social security regulations and you will delve into the main interpretive problems posed by the latest regulatory changes and the criteria applied in labour legal advice. In addition, the subjects in the master will provide you with up-to-date knowledge on constitutional jurisprudence and the Spanish Supreme Court, highlighting what refers to the unification of the doctrine applied to lawyers and companies and, if applicable, that of the higher courts of justice of the autonomous communities, especially in the case of Catalonia.
The master's course offers the student a very diverse team of teachers. The composition of the last two courses consisted of 19 university professors belonging to 13 different universities and various fields of the labour legal environment, 9 magistrates, 7 lawyers from the Public Administration, 4 practising lawyers and 2 Work and Social Security Inspectors.
The Lifelong learning master's degree in Labour and Social Security Law is endorsed by Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Spanish university and the 15th best university in the world (of those with less than 50 years), according to the Times Higher Education ranking. In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally.
This university master training includes the possibility of doing extracurricular internships as a lawyer in a law firm at the end of the master. This type of internship is not part of the academic content of the master or postgraduate course; it is considered a complement to the students' class sessions and is not mandatory.
Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.
Labour relations have always presented a high degree of judicialization, so there is a sustained demand for the education of specialists in labour law (lawyers and graduates with good company knowledge). Every year, in Catalonia alone, more than 62,000 cases in matters of management of labour law and labour legal advice enter the courts. In approximately half of these, more than 30,000, a trial is held and the corresponding sentence or negotiation is given, while the others are reconciled and some are abandoned. This gives us a clear idea of the social need for a large number of legal specialists and lawyers in this area.
For more than 28 courses, the master has been training students as specialists in the social branch of law and as lawyers, subject to continuous reforms and management systems, both in labour matters and in the elaboration of collective agreements, which makes the program a reference in the labour law sector.
The teaching team of the master is made up of diverse professors who come from many universities and different areas of experience, as well as specialists from all legal subjects and professions (magistrates, inspectors, lawyers, public administration lawyers, etc.) both from Spain and from the European environment.
The master program satisfies the diverse needs of students: preparation for public examinations, change of speciality in the field of work and social security, preparation for free practice as a lawyer specializing in labour relations, new knowledge and recycling of all the subject after years of dealing with a few topics on labour legal management, etc.
Students on the Master will have the opportunity to carry out specialized professional internships in the field of labour relations, Labour Law and Social Security in Spain.
The master is one of the courses that is aimed primarily at graduate students in Law or Labour Relations, who are interested in specializing or deepening their skills and knowledge in the professional practice of labour law and advice in the field of Labour Law and labour relations in companies.
Exceptionally, those graduates from other fields (such as Economics, Labour Sciences or Political Sciences) could apply as students of the master provided they have certain knowledge and a minimum legal-labour basis for having taken subjects in Labour Law and labour relations in Spain.
Our master's students are mostly legal professionals who wish to become specialists in Labour and Social Security Law in different organizations in a European environment, whether they are acquiring this speciality for the first time after recently joining a law firm or by changing speciality given the high current demand for specialists in law and in the labour market. In particular, graduates who have recently started practising as lawyers or as company graduates tell us that their interest is to expand their training in issues that they once deemed irrelevant, together with a natural focus on the most recent regulatory reforms.
The teaching team of the Master in Labour and Social Security Law is made up of a diverse team of teachers with extensive experience in education who come from different companies and universities as well as specialists from all professions in the labour legal field (magistrates, inspectors, lawyers, public administration lawyers, etc.).
To obtain the title corresponding to our courses, it is essential that students complete the Master's Final Project, attend classes regularly (a minimum of 80%) and pass the practical exercises and compulsory work, whose conditions of delivery and preparation will be defined, in each case, by the professionals who commission them.
The program meets diverse needs at a professional level and helps the student who reaches the end of the master to:
- Prepare oppositions
- Change specialization to the field of work and social security
- Prepare for the free practice of law as a specialist lawyer
- Update knowledge related to Labour and Social Security Law
- Create a firm for advising companies, workers or organizations
The Master in Labour and Social Security Law is conceived with the purpose of combining two objectives that could seem antagonistic at the educational level: generality and depth. The first experience is manifested in an all-encompassing program design in which all aspects of the world of work, labour law, collective agreements and labour disputes are considered, with special emphasis on those aspects that have undergone more recent modifications.
The Lifelong learning master's degree in Labour and Social Security Law, a program for an international audience, specifically trains students in the necessary skills for labour legal advice, from advising companies and public institutions to negotiating and defending the different parties in labour relations, either individual or through collective bargaining.
- Julia López López
Full Professor, DTSS. Senior Advisor. - Nuria Pumar Beltrán
Associate Professor, DTSS. Gender Advisor. - Jordi Agustí Julià
Emeritus Judge, Supreme Court. - Ignasi Areal Calama
Senior Occupational Risk Prevention Technician. - Miguel Arenas Gómez
Lawyer. - Susana Barcelón Cobedo
Associate Professor, DTSS. - Catherine Barnard
Professor, University of Cambridge. - Guillem Bernat Pérez-Tormo
Judge. - Sergio Canalda Criado
Serra Húnter Lecturer, DTSS. - Consuelo Chacartegui Jávega
Full Professor, DTSS. - Jesús Cruz Villalón
Full Professor, DTSS. - Alexandre De le Court
Serra Húnter Lecturer, DTSS. - Sebastián de Soto Rioja
Full Professor, DTSS. - Josep Fargas Fernández
Honorary Professor, DTSS. - Juan Manuel Fernández Pérez
Judge. - Ignacio García-Perrote Escartín
Judge, Supreme Court, and Full Professor, DTSS. - Sixte Garganté Petit
Lawyer. - Xavier González de Rivera Serra
Judge. - Mónica González Díaz
Legal Department, INSS. - José Antonio González Espada
Lawyer. - Santiago González Ortega
Full Professor, DTSS. - José Luis Goñi Sein
Full Professor, DTSS. - Anna Huertos Ferrer
Lawyer and Adjunct Professor, DTSS. - Adoración Jiménez Hidalgo
Judge. - Rafael Laraña Cobo
Senior Technician, INSS. Provincial Director, INSS Barcelona. - Francisco J. Martínez Cano
Judge. - Macarena Martínez Miranda
Judge, High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJ Catalunya). - Marta Molist Requena
Judge. - Magdalena Nogueira Guastavino
Full Professor, DTSS. - Ana Orallo Rodríguez
Labour and Social Security Inspector. Adjunct Professor, DTSS. - Joan Palet Vilaró
Labour and Social Security Inspector. Adjunct Professor, DTSS. - M. Teresa Paños Pascual
Head of Service, Guarantee of Working Conditions, Government of Catalonia. - Luis Pérez Capitán
Labour and Social Security Inspector. - Francisco Pérez Durán
Lawyer. - M. Dolors Pérez Martínez
Legal Department, INSS. Adjunct Professor, DTSS. - Andrés Pérez Subirana
Lawyer. Adjunct Professor, DTSS. - Margarita Ramos Quintana
Full Professor, DTSS. - Juan Reyes Herreros
Lawyer. Adjunct Professor, DTSS. - Miguel Rodríguez-Piñero Royo
Full Professor, DTSS. - Ana Cristina Salas Velasco
Judge. - Fèlix Salaverria Palanca
Legal Department, Department of Social Rights, Government of Catalonia. - Fernando Salinas Molina
Emeritus Judge, Supreme Court. - María Luisa Segoviano Astaburuaga
Judge, Constitutional Court. - Andrés Trillo García
Central Legal Department, INSS. - José María Vargas Segura
Senior Technician, TGSS. - Telma Vega Felgueroso
Labour and Social Security Inspector. Adjunct Professor, DTSS. - Rosa Maria Virolés Piñol
Emeritus Judge, Supreme Court.
Master in Labour and Social Security Law
