LAW5319 · Law of employee relations

Overview

This unit focuses on the law of employee relations. Topics covered will focus on issues such as the contract of employment; the rights and obligations of employers and employees; rights in respect of unfair dismissal and redundancy, and remedies for breach; collective (enterprise) agreements under the Commonwealth Fair Work Act 2009; the process of negotiation, the legal status of such agreements, and procedures for enforcement; the role of unions and the Fair Work Commission in these processes and procedures; modern awards and the legislative prescription of minimum entitlements in the National Employment Standards.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Apply knowledge and understanding of the law relating to employee relations in Australia, the sources of rights and obligations between employers and employees and the processes of resolving employer-employee disputes with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice;
2. Investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories in relation to the theoretical and philosophical bases underpinning the resolution of industrial disputes and the determination of relationships between employer and employees in Australia;
3. Conduct research in the law of employee relations based on knowledge of appropriate research principle and methods; and
4. Use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate complex ideas and concepts relevant to the operation in practice of the systems of industrial dispute resolution and determination in Australia.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit typically comprises of a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study applicable to a 6 credit point unit. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning, and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.