LAW7406 - Employment and Industrial Relations Practice

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Introduction

Welcome to the Employment and Industrial Relations Practice Unit in the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Skills & Ethics (PDLP) Online Course.

Purpose

In this Unit you will

look at some of the basic principles and relevant legislation in Employment and Industrial Relations
examine some of these basic principles in practice with examples
explore some of the ethical issues
look at the basic documentation used in this area of law.

Learning Outcomes

This Unit is concerned with developing your practical legal skills in interviewing, drafting and advising within the context of transactions commonly associated with Employment and Industrial Relations Law practice.

At the successful completion of this Unit you should be able to

Identify the key provisions of the relevant Victorian legislation
Negotiate, draft and seek approval of an enterprise agreement
Advise on unfair dismissals
Advise on methods of resolving disputes in the workplace other than by litigation
Advise on unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace
Apply the law on unlawful discrimination and harassment
Identify the appropriate jurisdiction for an industrial claim
Initiate and respond to proceedings in industrial relations.

Modules

This Unit is divided into 5 Modules. If you click on any of the titles below it will take you to a brief introduction for that Module.

Teaching Staff

This Unit is taught by Danny Robinson from the Law Faculty at Monash University and he can help you with your enquiries in regards to the content or assessment of this Unit. You can contact Danny from 9 June 2008 on email at:

danny.robinson@law.monash.edu.au

Attendance

You must attend all face to face sessions to pass this Unit. If you have any difficulties in attending please contact Danny as soon as possible.

Other

If you have any other enquiries please contact the following

Administrative - please contact Wendy Panaccio
Technology - please contact the Webmanager

Assessment

Assessment overview for this Unit

If you have any academic questions with respect to this assessment, please email Danny Robinson (danny.robinson@law.monash.edu.au). If your question is administrative in nature please contact either Kathryn Radcliffe, the PG Administrative Assistant PDLP (wendy.panaccio@law.monash.edu.au) or Gaye Landsell, Course Convener (gaye.lansdell@law.monash.edu.au).

Please note that assessments handed in late are subject to a penalty of 10% per day from both the skill (where appropriate) and the content. Please consult the Course Handbook provided in hardcopy at the commencement of the online course about assessment regulations. Please note that individual teachers or sessional staff are not authorised to provide extensions or accept special consideration applications - you must speak to the Course Convener.

Resources

You will find a range of useful resources available to help you in this Unit including

If you find any resources that you think might be helpful for this Unit can you please email your Teacher with the details.

Plagiarism

The University applies strict policies on plagiarism. If a piece of assessable work contains significant plagiarised material it may be graded at zero. Furthermore, conscious or intentional copying can be regarded as cheating and dealt with under the University's Disciplinary Procedures. It is also an offence for a student to permit their work to be copied by another student for submission.

It is critically important that graduates do not plagiarise. The program emphasises professional ethics and plagiarism by a solicitor has been treated as grounds for suspension from practice.

You must therefore take particular care that all the work you submit for assessment is genuinely your own work (apart from legitimate legal sources such as precedents). You are encouraged to discuss the requirements of an assessable task with your colleagues but the final product submitted must be your own.

You should bear in mind that your instructor is reading a relatively small number of pieces of work and improper similarities between the work of two or more graduates are strikingly obvious.

You should also bear in mind that it is improper to allow your work to be copied and both the copier and the copy-ee may receive a zero grade for the work.

Worksite

If you are an enrolled student you can now enter the Unit worksite by clicking on the link "Go to the online resources for this Unit" in the blue box at the top right hand side of this page. Once you have logged in using your Monash "Authcate" password you will go to the Unit Organiser.