Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (LEIR) Department established 1975 within Bursa Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and one of forth founders of faculty. Department titled Social Policy and Cooperative Trading for 1982. After 1982 code of "Higher University Council" department had been renamed "Labour Economics and Industrial Relations". Department has been interdisciplinary character and compatible to composition four sub-department activated which is "Labour Economics", "Law of Labour and Social Security", "Sociology of Management and Work" and also "Psychology of Management and Work". In addition LEIR has given graduate and PhD. degree dependent Uludag University of Social Sciences Institute.
As of 2021, our department provides undergraduate education to a total of 1026 students, including 501 in daytime education, 471 in evening education, and 54 foreign students. This number is higher than the number of students in many faculties. The development of the increasing female student weight in social sciences education in Turkey, coupled with the “human-oriented” nature of Social Policy issues, has clearly manifested itself in our department, and 518 of our current students are female and 454 are male. We continue our education and training activities uninterruptedly as a department that is more prepared for today and the future with nearly 200 students who will enroll in the 2021-2022 Academic Year.
