730-436 Principles of Labour Law

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The role of law in regulating employment relationships. The origins of the Australian labour law system. Modes of regulating individual employment relationships; the employment contract; direct statutory and tribunal regulation of employment conditions; regulation of atypical employment contracts; Anti-Discrimination provisions in application to employment situations. The Federal system of labour law (the Industrial Relations Act 1988 (Cth)); the constitutional parameters (including international obligations); conciliation and arbitration; collective bargaining (both within the formal system and outside); enforcement of the formal system. Trade unions; registration and objects; internal regulation; organisational security; trade unions and their relations with members, officials and non-conformers. Industrial conflict and direct actions. Common law liability for industrial action. Statutory regulation of industrial action, penalties under the Federal Act, the right to strike. State systems of law; the Employee Relations Act 1992 (Vic). Legal regulation of workplace health and safety and workers compensation.

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• B Creighton and A Stewart, Labour Law: An Introduction, Federation Press, Sydney.
• Act, Industrial Relations Act, 1988 (Cth).