Employment Law in an International Context Course Descriptor

Course Overview

In a world of changing employment practices, the Employment Law course enables students to develop a detailed and critical understanding of the principles of employment law with a primary emphasis on the law of the UK. These legal frameworks are explored in the wider context of the relationship between labour regulation and the global economy, and the relationship between economic change and labour from a legal point of view.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

Knowledge and Understanding

Subject Specific Skills

Transferable and Employability Skills

Teaching and Learning

This course has a dedicated Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) page with a syllabus and range of additional resources (e.g. readings, question prompts, tasks, assignment briefs, discussion boards) to orientate and 

The scheduled teaching and learning activities for this course are:

Interactive lectures/seminars 

40 scheduled hours – typically including induction, consolidation or revision, and assessment activity hours.

• Version 1:all sessions in the same sized group

OR 

• Version 2: most of the sessions in larger groups; some of the sessions in smaller groups

Faculty hold regular ‘office hours’, which are opportunities for students to drop in or sign up to explore ideas, raise questions, or seek targeted guidance or feedback, individually or in small groups. 

Students are to attend and participate in all the scheduled teaching and learning activities for this course and to manage their directed learning and independent study.

Indicative total learning hours for this course: 150 

Assessment

Both formative and summative assessment are used as part of this course, with purely formative opportunities typically embedded within interactive teaching sessions, office hours, and/or the VLE. 

Students are assessed using a written assignment and a role play based on a hypothetical client interaction.

Summative Assessments

Further information about the assessments can be found in the Course Syllabus.

Feedback

Students will receive formative and summative feedback in a variety of ways, written (e.g. marked up on assignments, through email or the VLE) or oral (e.g. as part of interactive teaching sessions or in office hours).

Indicative Reading

Note: Comprehensive and current reading lists are produced annually in the Course Syllabus or other documentation provided to students; the indicative reading list provided below is for a general guide and part of the approval/modification process only.

• Honeyball S and Bowers J, Textbook on Labour Law, Oxford: Oxford, University Press. (current edition) 
• Painter RW and Holmes, A Cases and Materials on Employment Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press (current edition) 
• Pitt G, Employment Law, London, Sweet & Maxwell (current edition) 
• Sargeant M Employment Law, Harlow: Pearson Education Limited (current edition) 
• Selwyn, N M Selwyn’s, Law of Employment, London, Lexis Nexis Butterworths (current edition)

Indicative Topics

Note: Comprehensive and current topics for courses are produced annually in the Course Syllabus or other documentation provided to students; the indicative topics provided below are used as a general guide and part of the approval/modification process only.

• An Introduction to Employment Law
• Contracts of Employment 
• Statutory Employment Right 
• Discrimination 
• Dismissal and the Common Law 
• Statutory Protection against Dismissal