Employment Law - LAWS3028
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: Crime & Criminal Process (LAWS1021/JURD7121) & Criminal Laws (LAWS1022/JURD7122) OR Crim. Law 1 (LAWS1001/JURD7101) & Crim. Law 2 (LAWS1011/JURD7111). Co-requisite: Litigation 1 [LAWS2311/ JURD7211] OR Res. Civil Disp. (LAWS2371/JURD7271)
Excluded: JURD7328
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Employment law is and will be relevant to all students throughout their lives, as well as being particularly topical presently. LAWS3028 - Employment Law will cover the study of individual employment relationships in Australia. Students will learn to distinguish employee / employer relationships from other relationships in which work is performed, and will learn about formation, duration and termination of the contract of employment; terms expressed, implied or otherwise incorporated into the contract of employment; the rights and liabilities of employers and employees under contract, legislation, awards and industrial instruments; limits on employer prerogative; and remedies available to employers and employees for breach of employment contracts, regulations or awards. To ensure that students find the course relevant, Employment Law will draw on student experiences, case law, and the use of hypotheticals.
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Familiarise students with the laws governing the employment of individuals
- Assist students to understand the context within which these laws operate
- Encourage students to relate this law to their own experiences
- Challenge students to view these laws from a critical perspective
- Stimulate students to communicate intelligently and articulately on the topic of employment law
- Facilitate students to develop the ability to research employment law topics
- Distinguish employment contracts from other contracts for the performance of work
- Apply their knowledge and understanding of employment law to solve relevant problems
- Demonstrate an understanding of the context within which these laws operate
- View these laws from a critical perspective
- Relate what they have studied in this course to their own experiences, and to the world around them
- Communicate intelligently and articulately on the topic of employment law
- Conduct research on employment law topics
Assessment
Course Texts
Prescribed
Andrew Stewart, Stewart’s Guide to Employment Law, 2009 (2nd Edition) Federation Press.
Recommended
Additional references will be available via the Employment Law WebCT Vista site.
Resources
The course is supported by a WebCT vista site.
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