Subjects 2009
Anti-Discrimination Law at Work 730630
- Credited Courses: Graduate Diploma in Labour Relations Law 188; Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies L08; Master of Commercial Law 504; Master of Labour Relations Law 510; Master of Laws (LLM) 502; Master of Laws (LLM) 502
Note
Students who have completed Health and Equality at Work or Discrimination and Dismissal Law may not undertake this subject.
Objectives
A student who has successfully completed this subject should be able to:
- Apply, at an advanced level, the legal principles of Australian anti-discrimination law in problem-solving exercises
- Evaluate technical aspects of these legal rules using historical, theoretical and practical perspectives
- Analyse emerging and contemporary issues in Australian anti-discrimination law and practice, and scholarship
- Demonstrate an understanding of the development of these legal rules in an international context.
Syllabus
Principal topics will include:
- A study of federal and state legislative provisions dealing with discrimination and equal opportunity in work relationships, primarily:
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)
- Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth)
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth)
- Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth)
- Age Discrimination Act 2004 (Cth)
- Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) (on discriminatory dismissal)
- Equal Opportunity Act 1995 (Vic)
- Features of the legal rules pertaining to discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, family responsibilities, disability and age
- The law’s response to sexual harassment in employment
- Dispute resolution and remedies.
