| Name | dr. Valentina Franca |
| Current place of work | University of Ljubljana |
| Position | Associate Professor |
| valentina.franca@fu.uni-lj.si | |
| Field of research | Industrial relations, labour law |
| Professional career | 10.2018 –
Associate professor and researcher of labour law Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 05.2013 – 09.2018 Associate professor and researcher of labour law Faculty of management, University of Primorska, Slovenia 01.2010 – 10. 2011 Vice Dean for Education Faculty of management, University of Primorska, Slovenia 10.2006 – 05. 2013 Teaching Assistant (2006 – 2009), Assistant professor and researcher (2009 – 2013) of labour law |
| List of the 5 most relevant publications | 1. SENČUR PEČEK, Darja, FRANCA, Valentina. From student work to false self-employment: how to combat precarious work in Slovenia. In: KENNER, Jeffrey, OTTO, Marta, FLORZCAK, Isabela (ed.) Precariuos work. The challenge for labour law in Europe, Edgar Elward Publishing. To be published in spring 2019.
2. FRANCA, Valentina. Board-level employee representation in Slovenia: from the constitution to practice. In: WADDINGTON, Jeremy (ed.). European board-level employee representation: national variations in influence and power, (Bulletin of comparative labour relations, vol. 102). Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer. cop. 2018, p. 155-177. 2. VOSS, Eckhard, BROUGHTON, Andrea, PULIGNANO, Valeria, FRANCA, Valentina, RODRIGUEZ CONTRERAS, Ricardo. Exploring the connections between EU- and national-level social dialogue. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2018. 3. FRANCA, Valentina, PAHOR, Marko. Influence of management attitudes on the implementation of employee participation. Economic and industrial democracy, ISSN 0143-831X, 2014, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 115-142. 4. FRANCA, Valentina, ZIRNSTEIN, Elizabeta. The legal aspects of the deregulation of professions as a supporting measure towards greater mobility of workers. E-journal of international and comparative labour studies, ISSN 2280-4056, 2014, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 4 – 26. |
| Other professional activity (memberships, grants, etc.) | 01. 2014 –
Member (national expert) of the Workers’ Participation in Europe Network
01. 2010 – Member of the editorial board of Adapt, Association of International and Comparative Studies in Labour and Industrial Relations and of the E-journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies
09. 2007 – 01. 2008 Fellowship of the Italian government Research fellowship in the field of industrial relations at Scuola di alta formazione in relazioni industriali e di lavoro, Universita di Reggio Emilia, Modena |