Law and managerial responsibility
Mr Lyall Phillips
6 points * 3 hours per week First, second semester Caulfield, Peninsula * Prerequisites: FIN1010 and MGM2661
Objectives On the completion of this subject students will have been introduced to common law and legislation which currently govern the management of staff; made aware that the law associated with this area is volatile and may change without warning necessitating constant alertness among managers to indicators from industry, peak industrial associations and Parliamentary statements as to impending variations in the legal framework in which human resource management is conducted; trained to conduct their own research into legislative interpretation and relevant sources of employment and associated law.
Synopsis Introduction to the complex web of interlocking legal implications associated with key staff-management decisions and is interlinked with student knowledge of human resource management. This subject is particularly directed towards the areas of: the individual employer-employee relationship; the contract of employment; the wages-work bargain; recruitment law; termination law including unfair dismissals; health and safety law in the workplace; mutality of legal rights and obligations; employer-employee duties of care; Robens Report implications; Occupational Health and Safety Act 1985 (Vic); vicarious liability; industrial action; consitutional considerations and discrimination law.
Assessment Major project/Assignment (4000 words): 40% * Final examination (3 hours): 60%
Prescribed texts
Macken J J and others The law of employment Law Book, 1990