BTF2991 - Employment law

Leader(s): Ms Anne O'Rourke

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (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 goals associated with 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

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination (3 hours, open-book): 60%

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

BTF1010

Prohibitions

BTW2241, BTW3241