Details for LAW210 Employment Relations Law

The employment relationship is one of the law’s most everyday contracts. Employment Relations Law covers how that contract is formed, what employers and employees owe each other, and how it ends, alongside awards, enterprise agreements, industrial action and work health and safety. You’ll apply state and federal frameworks and reflect on the lawyer’s duty to promote justice. You’ll finish ready to solve employment problems with persistence, independence and integrity.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: LAW210
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

LAW105 Contract Law 2  

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Identify the basic principles of Australia’s common law of employment and reflect upon the professional responsibilities of lawyers to promote justice and service to the community.
2. Research how Australian state and federal legislation has significantly impacted the common law of employment.
3. Solve legal problems through critically applying employment law principles and remedies with persistence, independence, rigour and integrity.
4. Critically evaluate the operation of state and commonwealth employment relations systems in Australia.
5. Summarise the role of unions and collective bargaining in Australia’s system of employment relations

Subject Content

1. Welcome + administrative tasks; Introducing Employment Law
2. What is Employment?
3. Contract Formation and Terms
4. Employer Duties
5. Employee Duties
6. Ending the Contract
7. Statutory Job Protections
8. The Federal System and Employment Conditions
9. Awards
10. Enterprise Agreements
11. Industrial Action
12. Work Health and Safety + Review
13. Examination Week

This course may be offered in the following formats

Face to Face on site

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

1. Class Participation  (10%)
2. Class Presentation  (20%)
3. Letter of Advice  (20%)
4. Final Examination (50%)

Prescribed Text

• Natalie Van der Waarden, Understanding Employment Law: Concepts and Cases (4th ed, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2017).  
• Melbourne University Law Review Association, Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association, 4th ed, 2018) 

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