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Workplace Law - LAWS4039
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 5740 or 9230
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course provides a contextual examination and critical analysis of the principal features of federal regulation of workplace relations in Australia, following the enactment of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005. Topics covered include:

- A critical examination of the political and economic motivations for the reforms
- Constitutional implications (including the impact of the reforms on the States)
- New institutional arrangements
- The new "safety net" (including the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions standards, and the continuing role of awards)
- Workplace bargaining (individual and collective)
- Controls on industrial action
- The regulation of industrial associations
- Implications for corporate restructuring (transmission of business rules; termination of employment protections)
- Dispute resolution

The focus of the course will be to understand the implications of the new regime for a range of labour market participants, including employers, workers and unions.

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