Employment and Labour LawLaajuus (5 cr)
Code: R300CE92
Credits
5 op
Teaching language
- English
Responsible person
- Tarja Tammia
Objective
Having completed this study unit
• You are able to recognize legal factors, issues and challenges in human resource management and in different phases of the employment lifecycle.
• You know the main content of the sector’s essential labour legislation and collective agreements and can apply them.
• You know the basics of data protection and protection of privacy at a workplace.
• You recognize the role and meaning of legal issues in human resource management.
Competences:
Content
- main principles of employment and labour law
- legal factors in recruiting
- legal factors in employment relationship
- termination of employment contract
- protection of privacy at a workplace (GDPR)
- role of legal issues in HRM
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Level 1
The principles of essential labour legislation
You are able to name some legal factors, issues and challenges in human resource management in different phases of the employment lifecycle.
You know the basics of the sector’s labour legislation and collective agreements and are able to list the main duties and rights of both an employer and employee.
You are able to solve simple employment and labour law cases by leaning to the given instructions and material.
You are able to recognize the role and meaning of legal issues in human resource management.
Level 2
The principles of essential labour legislation
You are able to describe some legal factors, issues and challenges in human resource management in different phases of the employment lifecycle.
You know the basics of the sector’s labour legislation and collective agreements and are able to describe the main duties and rights of both an employer and employee.
You are able to recognize problems in a case, choose regulations, apply them and give a conclusion.
You know the role and meaning of legal issues in human resource management.
Assessment criteria, good (3)
Level 3
The principles of essential labour legislation
You understand legal factors, issues and challenges as part of human resource management and the employment lifecycle.
You understand the basics of the sector’s labour legislation and collective agreements and are able to describe the duties and rights of both an employer and employee.
You are able to recognize problems in a case, choose relevant regulations, apply them and give both correct and justified conclusion.
You understand the role and meaning of legal issues in human resource management.
Level 4
The principles of essential labour legislation
You have a good understanding of the legal factors, issues and challenges as part of human resource management and the employment lifecycle.
You have a command of the basics of the sector’s labour legislation and collective agreements and understand the interrelation of the duties and rights of an employer and employee.
You have a good understanding of a case and its details, you are able to choose relevant regulations, fluently apply them and give a justified conclusion.
You have a good understanding of the role and meaning of legal issues in human resource management.
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
Level 5
The principles of essential labour legislation
You have a command of the legal factors, issues and challenges as part of human resource management and the employment lifecycle.
You have a holistic understanding of the sector’s labour legislation and collective agreements.
You have an overall understanding of a case at hand and its details, you are able to choose relevant regulations, fluently apply them and give a justified conclusion.
You are able to proactively take legal issues in account as part of human resources management.