LAW4132 Law of employment

Workload:
3 hours of lectures per week. The content is similar to a core subject, but without the extra hour of tutorials. Practice problems were done in lectures.

Prescribed Prerequisites/Recommended Prerequisites:
Prescribed Prerequisites:

For students who commenced their LLB (Hons) course in 2015 or later:

LAW1111; LAW1114; LAW1112; LAW1113; LAW2101; LAW2102 and LAW2111.

For students who commenced their LLB course prior to 2015:

LAW1100 or LAW1101 and LAW1102 or LAW1104; LAW2100 or LAW2101 and LAW2102.

Prescribed Co-Requisites:

For students who commenced their LLB (Hons) course in 2015 or later:

LAW3111 and LAW3112.

Recommended Prerequisites: 

There was brief mention of Corporations Law, but studying Corporations Law is definitely not required to understand this content.

Assessments:
In semester assessment 40% comprising EITHER research assignment 2000 words OR case note 1500 words (30%) and class presentation on case (10%) AND final examination (2 hours plus 30 min reading and noting) (60%) OR final examination (3 hours plus 30 min reading and noting) (100% including 40% research component). All students will also be required to complete a non-assessable review exercise around Week 6 of the course.

Recorded Lectures:
No.

Past exams available:
Yes.

Textbook recommended?
No.

Comments:
Semester 2, 2016

Employment is a subject worth taking if you are a practical thinker and don’t like subjects which are overly conceptual. Even if you don’t plan on practising this area of law, it is a great subject if you want to understand your rights and obligations as an employee (which you are bound to be at some point in your life).

This unit is grounded in a lot of substantive law and is very similar to studying a core unit in the way you answer questions. It also draws on a lot of contract law.

I completed the research essay and found this to be a fair assessment. The questions were interesting and there was a good amount of material around to be able to adequately answer the question.

This subject is manageable on a heavy workload because the concepts are not difficult to understand and the principles are very applicable to your own life. Because the content moves quite quickly, it is a good idea to keep up with your notes/readings.