Unit name | Employment Law |
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Unit code | LAWD30113 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Ford |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
LAWD10008 Law of Contract OR LAWD10007 Foundations of Business Law. |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit seeks to develop an understanding of the world of work and its legal regulation. Topics to be covered in this unit include: the contract of employment; fidelity and confidentiality; statutory regulation of wages and working time; regulation of dismissals; worker participation and collective bargaining; industrial action; and equality law. A variety of theoretical perspectives (economic, sociological and rights-based) will be used to underpin the material studied.
By the end of this unit a successful student will be able to:
23 one-hour lectures and 7 one-hour tutorials.
Students will be required to submit formative practice coursework in the first term, and may bring an answer to a problem question to a tutorial in the second term which is jointly marked in class. The first formative assessment is mandatory; the second is optional.
Summative assessment consists of one three-hour closed book examination in May/June, in which students answer 4 questions from a choice of 8 questions.
The assessment will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit through essay-style and problem questions.
The most recent editions of:
Deakin and Morris, Labour Law (Hart Publishing) or Collins, Ewing and McColgan, Labour Law (Cambridge University Press).
And
Blackstones Statutes on Employment Law or Butterworths Employment Law Handbook