BSQA635 – Employment Relations
Module code
BSQA635
Module title
Employment Relations
Prescription
Students will apply knowledge of current employment relations legislation, processes and practices, and understand the relationship of the parties involved.
Programmes
- BS8906
NZQA Level
Level 6
NZQA Credits
20
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Directed hours
- 64
- Self directed hours
- 136
- Total learning hours
- 200
Resources required
- Learning Outcomes
- LEARNING OUTCOME ONE
Students will explain key factors influencing the development of employment relations.
Key elements:
a) Ideologies.
b) Environment.
c) Legislation.
LEARNING OUTCOME TWO
Students will explain how key current legislation affects the employment relationship.
Key elements:
a) Rights and responsibilities of the parties.
b) Individual and collective bargaining.
c) Strikes and lockouts.
d) Good faith.
e) State institutions.
f) Labour inspectors.
LEARNING OUTCOME THREE
Students will apply legal provisions to analyse the nature of the relationship between parties.
Key elements:
a) Contract of service versus contract for services.
b) Legal tests.
LEARNING OUTCOME FOUR
Students will critique and analyse employment agreements for legal compliance in given situations.
Key elements:
a) Employment agreements:
- individual and collective
- fixed term
- casual and part-time
- trial and probationary arrangements.
b) Legal compliance:
- minimum provisions
- relevant statutes
- case law.
LEARNING OUTCOME FIVE
Students will analyse an employment agreement negotiation.
Key elements:
a) Legal framework.
b) Good faith.
c) Integrative and distributive negotiation approaches.
LEARNING OUTCOME SIX
employment relationship problems.
Key elements:
a) Mediation and adjudication processes.
b) Dispute of right:
- progressive warning system
- lawful termination of employment:
- redundancy
- abandonment of employment
- incapacity
- summary dismissal
- personal grievances.
c) Dispute of interest.
