LAWS303-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Advanced Employment Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 13 October 2017

Description

The course aims to provide a sound academic grounding in key areas of advanced employment law. It will examine the key topics of freedom of association, unions, collective bargaining and strikes and lockouts, as well as selected topics drawn from areas such as institutional employment law, discrimination, occupational safety and health, and privacy.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Reflect on the factors that shape employment law and its implementation;
2. Understand and articulate a range of different models developed by industrial relations;
3. Identify a number of perspectives and approaches to employment conflicts to help explain the operation of industrial relations systems;
4. Critically examine how some of the contemporary challenges impact employment relations;
5. Assess critically the role of the judiciary in employment law;
6. Identify employment issues in New Zealand and International legal context and construct responses to those issues;  
7. Communicate orally in a persuasive and effective manner.

Prerequisites

(i) LAWS101; (ii) LAWS110; and (iii) LAWS363 or may be admitted by Head of Department if concurrently enrolled.

Restrictions

LAWS318

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Annick Masselot

Lecturer

Henry Holderness

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Online Test 10 Aug 2017 20%
Take Home Test 18 Aug 2017 30%
Essay 12 Oct 2017 40%
Learning Journal 19 Oct 2017 10%


For full details please see separate documents on Learn and discussed in Week 1.

The assessment is composed of three elements:

(1) a written summary of a key concept (20%) and a group presentation (10%) (total 30%);  
(2) a research essay (50%); and
(3) a legal opinion (20%).

Textbooks / Resources

Reading will be posted on Learn prior to each seminar.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $775.00

International fee $3,525.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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