Employment Law - LAWS3028
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
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
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding for the reason Employment Law exists in our society, and how it has developed to its current form.
- Identify and apply relevant statutory instruments to hypothetical fact scenarios.
- Advise a hypothetical client on their contractual position in a hypothetical fact scenario, including through the implication of terms from statute and common law, in a clear and concise manner.
- Communicate intelligently, concisely, professionally and critically on Employment Law topics in the broader context of interdisciplinary perspectives to legal issues.
- Conduct independent research on Employment Law topics.
Assessment
- Class Participation: 20%
- Feedback Quizzes: 20%
- Final Quiz:20%
- Chose at least 40% of the following options: Take Home Problem (20%), Research Essay (20%), Communication Tool (20%)
Course Texts
Prescribed
Andrew Stewart, Stewart’s Guide to Employment Law, 2013 (4th Edition); and
Rinaldi et al, Fair Work Legislation 2013, (Thomson Reuters, 2013)
Electronic resources
Additional (required) reading and information will be shared via Moodle. Students must regularly check to see whether there are any additional readings before class.
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