School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Workplace Laws and Regulations
  • Unit Code

    LAW2108
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Cecilia ANTHONY DAS

Description

This unit focuses on employment and industrial laws in Australia. Students will be introduced to contemporary legal challenges modern workplaces face in Australia. This unit will provide a global understanding of the laws that are applicable in the workplace. It seeks to highlight the difficulties that may be faced by all parties involved in employment relationships. It aims to bring to the fore the complexity of determining the role of parties within employment relationships and the legal duties imposed by legislation. It also seeks to compare workplaces governed by State and Federal laws. This unit will provide a working knowledge of employment law matters for students intending to pursue this study area and move into HR practice.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit may be offered in Summer School.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed LAW1100 or LAW1116

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply critically employment law knowledge to the contemporary workplace
  2. Employ communication skills to communicate legal solutions to employment challenges
  3. Connect legal principles and generate possible solutions to employment law challenges
  4. Describe the various roles and skills of effective teams.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to Workplace Law
  2. The relationship of employer and employee
  3. Employment Contracts
  4. Contractual Duties
  5. Duties of Care and Workplace Safety
  6. Suspension and Standown
  7. Terminating Employment Contracts
  8. The Fair Work Act 2009
  9. Statutory Protection
  10. Anti Discrimination Laws

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectGroup Project30%
Case StudyProblem Based Question Test20%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectGroup Project30%
Case StudyProblem Based Question Test20%
ExaminationFinal Examination 50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Workplace Laws and Regulations
  • Unit Code

    LAW2108
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Cecilia ANTHONY DAS

Description

This unit focuses on employment and industrial laws in Australia. Students will be introduced to contemporary legal challenges modern workplaces face in Australia. This unit will provide a global understanding of the laws that are applicable in the workplace. It seeks to highlight the difficulties that may be faced by all parties involved in employment relationships. It aims to bring to the fore the complexity of determining the role of parties within employment relationships and the legal duties imposed by legislation. It also seeks to compare workplaces governed by State and Federal laws. This unit will provide a working knowledge of employment law matters for students intending to pursue this study area and move into HR practice.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit may be offered in Summer School.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed LAW1100 or LAW1116

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply critically employment law knowledge to the contemporary workplace
  2. Employ communication skills to communicate legal solutions to employment challenges
  3. Connect legal principles and generate possible solutions to employment law challenges

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to Workplace Law
  2. The relationship of employer and employee
  3. Employment Contracts
  4. Contractual Duties
  5. Duties of Care and Workplace Safety
  6. Suspension and Standown
  7. Terminating Employment Contracts
  8. The Fair Work Act 2009
  9. Statutory Protection
  10. Anti Discrimination Laws

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject30%
Case StudyProblem Based Question Test20%
ExaminationFinal Examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject30%
Case StudyProblem Based Question Test20%
ExaminationFinal Examination 50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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