Module Descriptors
EMPLOYMENT ADVICE II (DL)
XSWK50090
Key Facts
Faculty of Health Sciences
Level 5
15 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 40
Independent Study Hours: 110
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- ON - LINE SEMINAR weighted at 30%
- ASSIGNMENT - SECOND ASSIGNMENT weighted at 70%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
1. Students will undertake an assessed seminar (30%) which contributes to all learning outcomes
and
2. A case study assignment 2000 words (70%) contributes to all LOs
or
3. A portfolio of students own work 2000 words (70%) contributes to all LOs
Formative Assessment - Tutor feedback will be provided via the online seminar discussion forums and also during the module via email and telephone responses to tasks and exercises.
Students must pass both elements of assessment in order to pass this module.
and
2. A case study assignment 2000 words (70%) contributes to all LOs
or
3. A portfolio of students own work 2000 words (70%) contributes to all LOs
Formative Assessment - Tutor feedback will be provided via the online seminar discussion forums and also during the module via email and telephone responses to tasks and exercises.
Students must pass both elements of assessment in order to pass this module.
Module Indicative Content
This module is concerned with Employment Law and peoples' rights at work. It is a development module in that it builds upon the knowledge and more basic understanding and skills acquired in the level one module. It addresses a range of issues relating to the problems people commonly experience at work, including aspects relating to the operation of contract terms and statutory rights to employment protection.
It focuses on:
- The nature of the employment relationship
- The employment contract, its form, sources, and operation
- The 'wage-work bargain', and specific aspects of its operation (including wage regulation, tax credits, and interruptions in wages)
- Individual and collective employment rights, and the statutory employment rights regime, including discrimination and human rights issues
- Workplace change and changes to employment contract terms (including the impact of collective agreements): and 'responses' to changes requiring advice on options
- The importance of key terms, including implied terms like and 'trust and confidence'
- Unfair dismissal, including constructive dismissal (and 'alternatives')
- Redundancy
- Advising on employment disputes; and issues relating to representation of employment clients
- The advocacy role of advisors.
It focuses on:
- The nature of the employment relationship
- The employment contract, its form, sources, and operation
- The 'wage-work bargain', and specific aspects of its operation (including wage regulation, tax credits, and interruptions in wages)
- Individual and collective employment rights, and the statutory employment rights regime, including discrimination and human rights issues
- Workplace change and changes to employment contract terms (including the impact of collective agreements): and 'responses' to changes requiring advice on options
- The importance of key terms, including implied terms like and 'trust and confidence'
- Unfair dismissal, including constructive dismissal (and 'alternatives')
- Redundancy
- Advising on employment disputes; and issues relating to representation of employment clients
- The advocacy role of advisors.
Module Learning Strategies
The focus of this award is on a mix of independent as well as directed study, but with opportunities to undertake a range of collaborative work with other participants on line - for example in preparing advice-related, and transactional tasks.
Contact Hours (40) on this module means on-screen hours engaging with the on screen study materials in the course documents, course information sections of the module.
Independent Study (110) means your on-line and off-line activity, including work in the course documents, course information, and discussion forums and assignments sections of the module. It also includes further relevant background and developmental reading and research. Preparation and engagement with the discussion forums, self-assessment exercises, tasks together with assessment preparation and completion.
The VLE Blackboard will provide a structured framework for the delivery of this module.
Contact Hours (40) on this module means on-screen hours engaging with the on screen study materials in the course documents, course information sections of the module.
Independent Study (110) means your on-line and off-line activity, including work in the course documents, course information, and discussion forums and assignments sections of the module. It also includes further relevant background and developmental reading and research. Preparation and engagement with the discussion forums, self-assessment exercises, tasks together with assessment preparation and completion.
The VLE Blackboard will provide a structured framework for the delivery of this module.
Module Resources
Access to a PC (with use of CD ROMS) is necessary
- Access to the Internet
- Access to hard-copy formats of texts, materials, and other guidance, such as government information, Explanatory Notes to legislation, etc
- Access to the Internet
- Access to hard-copy formats of texts, materials, and other guidance, such as government information, Explanatory Notes to legislation, etc
Module Texts
- Painter, R.W. and Puttick, K. (with Holmes, A. E. M) Employment Rights 3rd Edition London: Pluto Press (2004) ISBN 0 7453 2125-9
- Painter, R.W. and Holmes, A.E.M. Cases and Materials on Employment Law, London: Oxford University Press (2004). ISBN 10-0-199284490
Reference may also be made to the following texts on specific aspects:
- On discrimination law, McColgan, A Discrimination Law: Text and Materials (Oxford: Hart Publishing). ISBN 01903307139
- On collective labour issues/unions, Morris, G. and Archer, T. Collective Labour Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing). ISBN 1-841113-096-6