Labour Law - Lecture 1 Quiz

• Welcome to the first lecture in Labour Law.
• The instructor is the sole teacher.
• Contact hours and course website information can be found online.

Course Structure and Content

• The course includes lectures and tutorials, with study guides available online.
• Slides are uploaded before each lecture.
• Contact hours are on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:45 p.m. in room 414.

Course Focus

• Most of the lectures will introduce labour law as a sub-discipline.
• It is as important as criminal/family law.
• The course will focus on employment law and the Fair Work Act, because it is an introductory elective.
• Labor law is not discrete to itself, contract law mixes in.

Expectations and Study Tips

• It's important not to fall behind on concepts.
• Clarification is welcome in lectures, tutorials, or via email without hesitation
• Guest panels occur near the end of the semester.
• The lecture will provide a quick overview of the course.
• The lecture will give mutual expectations.
• The lecture will give tips for approaching study in law.

Key Topics

• Traditions and key historical moments in Australian Labour Law.
• The focus is primarily on employment law and the Fair Work Act of the Commonwealth.
• Also there is an emphasis on individual employment contracts, collective labour relations, and industry awards.
• The structure is for 13 hours total: two hours in the room or online.
• Tutorials begin next week.
• Tutorials are in Even/Odd weeks.
• Finals may be partly open book to accommodate those students that are unable to afford the textbook
• Extracts of the statute will be allowed in the exam.

Assessment

• The assessmsnt is hypothetical.
• The hypothetical assessment will be handed out in a few weeks with plenty of time to complete it, even up to after the break.
• Tutorials will be allocated with enrollment in either even or odd weeks.
• the assessment will be worth 40% of the total grade.
• it will cover the aspects of the formation of employment relationships, individual stuff and the statutory protections for unfair dismissal.
• The student will be able to bring in extracts of the statue to the in person exam on campus.
• In order to prepare for assessments: Use slides/lectures as your skeleton when studying.

Course Exclusions

• The course won't cover anti-discrimination acts, occupational health and safety, workplace health and safety, or worker's compensation.
• In order to learn about discrimination law, contact Professor Paul Harper.
• The lecturers brother gave his first lecturers as a physicist, and is not a particle physicist in France.
• This lecturer is giving lectures on behalf of the doctor or clan.

Course Book

• The textbook is a case of materials book.
• It gives a variety of readings within it in addition to extracts of cases to make it easier to read the primary law and extracts.
• Textbook needed for the course is from LexisNexis and expensive, so the library has been asked to provide electronic copies for sharing.
• Readings will focus on the current textbook rather than older editions; a supplement exists for the old textbook if needed but current developments in High Court and legislative statute will be covered in the textbook itself.
• The new book is $160, and there is a supplement to the old textbook. -Focus will be on the set texbook.

Constitution

• The content that is taught on the constitutional underpinnings will not be made available for examination.
• All underpinnings will provide knowledge on the differences in each state, and how it got there.
• The website needs to be checked weekly for study guides and other things.
• The lecturer will point out sections that have to be known in lectures,
• Students can start to the curate an edited version of the legislation, online either Ausli or the federal, register of legislation.
• He will give you guidance about what really important things to focus on in the chapters.

Note taking

• Students should take lecture notes, preferably by hand, for better processing and understanding.
• Neurologists agree.
• Students can write on a tablet with a pen.

External help

• Reference works include "Labour Law," and Macken's "Law of Employment"

Labour Law

• It means we have to work to pass this course.
• it has tended to tick over the the what is called the bible, and what is called labour is just a latin based word meaning work.
• Many terms over time have been diciplinary names of this field.
  • if we were discussing this before the universe, the mid 19 century it would be caled the master and servant law.

New Area of Law

• Most students are unfamiliar with labour law.
• Students with experience in industrial relations will find their experience useful.
• There will be a survey to see how many people have done industrial relations.
• Most students will have paid word.
• The survey will be part of the servey.
• It is normal for students to have one to two casual jobs.
• Many terms to understand:
  • Awards are uniques part in australian and new zealand.
    • Provide core minimum conditions for that work.
  • Industial organizations, unions, employer associations
• The Fair Work Act started in 2009 as the Manifestation of the legislation that largely governs. FWC Fair Work Commission.

Terminology

• FWA means the Fair Work Act and one is free to write it in the exam.
• FWC means Fair Work Commission.
• Industrial Relation Commissions at at the state and national level.
• Ombudsman is somewhere you can take a complaint to.
• The correct answer the course is called that.

This is a quiz generated using the transcript from the first labour law lecture.