Course Title: Labour Law
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Labour Law
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
LAW1039 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
615H Accounting |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2009 |
LAW1039 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
660H Graduate School of Business and Law |
Face-to-Face |
Spring2011, Sem 2 2017, Sem 2 2018, Sem 2 2019, Sem 2 2021, Sem 2 2023 |
LAW2410 |
Open Learning Australia |
Non Award |
660H Graduate School of Business and Law |
Distance / Correspondence |
OUAS2PG18, OUAS2PG19, OUAS2PG21, OUAS2PG23 |
Course Coordinator: Anthony Forsyth
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 2000
Course Coordinator Email: anthony.forsyth@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: 13.2.50
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Required Prior Study
040015 - Introduction to the Australian Legal System and Legal Methods
Course Description
This course examines the individual employment relationship and collective labour relations. Topics will include the development of Australian labour law and the constitutional framework; international influences on the development of labour law; the National Employment Standards; modern awards; enterprise agreements; the regulation of trade unions and the regulation of industrial action and industrial disputes.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
See learning outcomes
On completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. identify the way in which Australian workplace relations laws are shaped by the constitutional powers of the Commonwealth
2. apply the creation, incidents and termination of the individual employment contract
3. apply statutory employment standards
4. apply the different means of setting and maintaining minimum working conditions, including the operation and enforcement of awards and agreements
5. critique the policy behind and operation of laws concerning industrial action
6. critique the development of Australian labour law in an international context.
Overview of Learning Activities
To achieve the objectives listed above this course requires you to participate in various learning activities. These activities comprise the following:
• Leading class discussion on legal problems and policy issues.
• Engaging in legal research by traditional means but also using electronic legal data bases and internet searching.
• Class presentations
• Participation in group activities
Overview of Learning Resources
From 2018, Canvas is RMIT University's Learning Management System. Canvas is a flexible online system which will provide you with an engaging and exciting learning experience as part of your studies with us. The Canvas platform will be the primary site for you to gain access to all the resources designed to support your learning in this course. Your Canvas portal can accessed by logging into the following RMIT page: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students
Overview of Assessment
The courses of the RMIT Juris Doctor program use assessment to measure and report on your achievement of capabilities against learning outcomes and to provide you with feedback on your performance and progress.
Generally, the assessment you will face may include assignments, class presentations, individual assignments and an end of semester examination.