The Section's research lines - based on a comparative method - are: flexibility and labour market, discriminations in the workplace, outsourcing processes, cooperative society, union representatives, collective bargaining, welfare state and employers’ liability, economic crisis and italian pension system, supplemental pension system, unemployment, immigration and labour law. The Section manages the specific curriculum for the Ph.D. Programme.

The Section organizes every year - hosting italian and foreign scholars from well-known academic institutions - seminars, lectures and conferences with the aim of spreading labour law knowledge. The Section's teacher staff collaborates with italian and foreign associations for promoting seminars in Italy and abroad.