LY335/HR335
Labour Law and Labour Rights
0.5 Credit

Hours per week:
  • Lecture/Discussion: 3

This course critically examines the legal and social dimensions of labour law in Canada and internationally. Students will examine labour law as a means of distributing power between individual workers and managers and between social classes. Students will consider the role of international regimes in shaping local labour laws such as the International Labour Organisation and ‘free' trade as well as other possible topics including the political role of unions, workplace dangers, strikes, compensation, wrongful dismissal, discrimination and human rights at work. (Cross-listed as HR335.)

Additional Course Information
Prerequisites
Registration status: senior student.