BTF2991 - Employment law

Leader: Ms Anne O'Rourke

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

Legal implications of staff-management decisions. Individual employer-employee relationship; contract of employment; wages-work bargain; recruitment law; discrimination law; termination law including unfair dismissals; mutuality of legal rights and obligations; health and safety law in the workplace; vicarious liability; industrial action and constitutional considerations.

Objectives

The learning objectives of this unit are to:

• Extend their knowledge and comprehension of the legal framework governing workplace relations in Australia;
• Evaluate the principles underlying employment laws and assess the law?s impact on the employment relationship;
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of employment law issues through the application of legal principles to a range of hypothetical scenarios;
• Identify and analyse current issues involving legal regulation of the workplace.

Assessment

Assignment (3500 words): 40%
Examination (open book 3 hours): 60%

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

BTF1010 or PMM1010 for students undertaking the Bachelor of Psychology and Management/Marketing