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Year 3 Business Law.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Mr R Mitchell.
Prerequisite: None.
Contact: Two 90-minute seminars per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
The principal specific objectives of the subject are as follows:
- to enable the students to understand the origins of labour law systems in the relevant countries, and in particular the transferability of Western models to developing countries;
- to give students a basic grasp of the relevant laws which govern the employment relationship between employer and employee;
- to give students an understanding of the laws regulating trade unions and the settlement of industrial disputes in the region;
- to enable students to place the development of these laws in their economic and political context, and to appreciate the link between legal and political systems, and economic developmen;
- to enable students to appreciate the practice of industrial relations in the various countries examined, and the relationship between the legal system and industrial relations practice;
- to give students an appreciation of the dynamism of labour law and industrial relations systems;
- to introduce students to ways of varying models of labour law, or industrial relations, to bring about desired change for economic or social reasons.
Content:
The subject will comprise the following topics:
- the origins of labour law in East-Asia and the pacific rim countries. An introduction to the evolution of labour law models in the relevant countries;
- transferability of legal models. An examination of the ways in which East-Asian countries have 'borrowed' Anglo-American, and Australian models of labour law;
- the adaptation of legal models in Asia. An examination of the ways in which laws and legal institutions are adapted to fit cultural, economic and political contexts;
- the regulation of the individual employer-employee relationship. An outline of the law comparing approaches to the contract of employment and the regulation of labour standards in the region;
- the regulation of industrial relations system. An outline of the law comparing approaches to the regulation of trade unions, and methods of industrial dispute settlement in the region;
- industrial relations in practice. A study of the practice, and a comparison of the formal rules, and actual practice.
Assessment:
A mid-semester research essay to a maximum of 3,500 words (40%) and a two hour end-of-semester examination (60%).
Prescribed texts:
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