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MMH349 Employment Relations
Trimester XXXXXXXXXX
Written assignment – ‘Change the rules’ campaign
Due date and time: Week 8 – Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 11.59pm.
Percentage of final grade: 40%
Word length 3,000 words (plus or minus 10 per cent, excluding the reference list)
Hurdle details: No hurdle.
Learning outcome details
At the completion of this Unit, students
should be able to do the following:
Deakin Graduate Learning
Outcomes
ULO1 Apply the concepts of employment
elations through an examination of the
cu
ent industrial laws and employment
elations policies deemed to be of
concern.
GLO1: Discipline specific
knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO4 Critical thinking
ULO3 Identify the views held by the main actors
within the Australian system of
employment relations, with respect to the
cu
ent laws and policies regulating
Australian workplace relations.
GLO1 Discipline-specific
knowledge and capabilities.
GLO2 Communication
ULO4 Analyse the validity of the evidence given
y the main actors to support or refute the
need to change the cu
ent laws and
policies regulating Australian workplace
elations.
GLO1: Discipline-specific
knowledge and capabilities.
GLO2: Communication
GLO4: Critical thinking
Assessment feedback
Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and feedback on
CloudDeakin on Wednesday 26 September 2018, before the close of business.
Assessment task
The Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Sally McManus, stated the following in a
speech given at the National Press Club in March of this year:
We believe in a fair go and we are prepared to fight for it. Working people are not getting their
fair share. We have one of the highest levels of insecure work in the developed world. People
have had enough and want change.
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McManus’ speech signaled the beginning of a union campaign designed to ‘change the rules’
presently governing Australian employment relations. The campaign is predicated on the belief that
the cu
ent federal legislation and certain policy measures are failing to balance the interests of
labour and capital; that the rules and policies governing workplace relations confer too many
advantages to businesses at the expense of workers’ security of employment and standards of
living. Much of the union angst is directed at the laws regulating enterprise bargaining, but there are
other elements in the policy approach adopted by Federal and State governments that are also held
to be detrimental to the interests of workers, as well as to the economic future of the country more
generally.
The aim of this assessment task is to review this topical issue, and in particular the arguments put
forward by those supporting the campaign and those who are opposed. To this end, you are
equired to answer the following questions:
1. What reasons have been put forward by the ACTU to justify its belief that the cu
ent ‘rules’
are failing Australian workers?
2. In what ways does the ACTU believe the ‘rules’ should be changed?
3. What has been the business response to the union campaign, and what reasons has it relied
upon to justify this response?
4. What has been the Federal Government’s response to the union campaign, and what reasons
has it relied upon to justify this response?
5. Which of these players provides the most compelling evidence to support their reasoning that
the rules need changing or otherwise?
Assignment format and rules
- This is not a group assignment.
- Adhere to the word limit as set out above.
- Set your line spacing at 1.5.
- Do not provide an executive summary or table of contents. This is not a ‘report’.
- Use a Harvard style in-text method of citation.
- There is no recommended number of sources that may or should be cited.
- Papers with no citation will attract an automatic zero. Resubmission is not an option.
- Papers with no reference section will attract an automatic zero. Resubmission is not an option.
- Papers that do not apply co
ect citation format will be marked down. If you are unsure of how to
cite the sources used to develop arguments in university level essays, the Unit Guide lists a
University web-site where this may be learned. Markers will allow some leeway for minor e
ors if a
genuine attempt to apply a co
ect citation format is evident.
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- Papers that apply citation to mask plagiarism will be automatically refe
ed to the Academic
Progress Committee, as will all cases of plagiarism. If you are unsure of what constitutes plagiarism,
the Unit Guide lists a University web-site where this may be learned.
Assignment submission rules
- An essay is deemed to have been submitted ‘on time’ when it is uploaded into the ‘Assessment’
folder on the unit’s Cloud Deakin web site by 11.59pm on the due date. When you submit an
assignment, an email will be sent to your Deakin address confirming that it has been submitted. You
should check that your assignment can be seen in the Submissions view of the assignment
‘Dropbox’ folder after uploading, and keep the email receipt for the submission.
- You are expected to keep a backup copy of every assignment you submit, until the marked
assignment has been returned to you. In the unlikely event that your assignment is misplaced, you
will need to submit the backup copy, so work you submit may be checked by electronic or other
means for the purposes of detecting collusion and/or plagiarism. Turnitin is provided on
CloudDeakin so you can check your work against the similarity report.
- The following marking penalties will apply if you submit an assessment task after the due date
without an approved extension: 5% will be deducted from available marks for each day up to five
days, and work that is submitted more than five days after the due date will not be marked. You will
eceive 0% for the task. 'Day' means a calendar day for electronic submissions. The Unit Chair may
efuse to accept a late submission where it is unreasonable or impracticable to assess the task after
the due date.
- For information about academic misconduct, special consideration, extensions, and assessment
feedback, please refer to the document: ‘Your rights and responsibilities as a student’, which can be
found in the first folder next to the Unit Guide of the Resources area in the CloudDeakin unit site.
- Finally, building a portfolio that evidences your skills, knowledge and experience will provide you
with a valuable tool to help you prepare for interviews and to showcase to potential employers.
There are a number of tools that you can use to build a portfolio. You are provided with cloud space
through OneDrive, or through the Portfolio tool in the Cloud Unit Site, but you can use any storage
epository system that you like. Remember that a Portfolio is your tool. You should be able to store
your assessment work, reflections, achievements and artefacts in your Portfolio. Once you have
completed this assessment piece, add it to your personal Portfolio to use and showcase your
learning later, when applying for jobs, or further studies. Curate your work by adding meaningful
tags to your artefacts that describe what the artefact represents.
Learning outcome details
MMH230 Human Resource Management
MMH349 Marking Ru
ic – Assignment (Trimester 2 2018)
Criteria Very inadequate Inadequate Adequate Satisfactory Very good Exceptional
0 or more 12 or more 20 or more 24 or more 28 or more 32 or more
Discipline specific
knowledge of the Fair
Work Act 2009, as well
as other policy areas that
egulate Australian
employment relations,
demonstrated through an
understanding of ACTU
arguments and remedies
for change.
Total: 15 marks (GLO1)
Demonstrates little or no
understanding of the
ACTU arguments and
emedies.
0 – 4.4 points
Understanding of the ACTU
arguments and remedies is
inadequate. The coverage
contains numerous omissions,
and/or the description offered
is incomplete, extremely
vague and/or contains
numerous e
ors.
4.5 – 7.4 points
Understanding of the ACTU
arguments and remedies is
acceptable. The coverage is
very basic, with some key
omissions, and/or the
description offered is limited,
vague and/or contains e
ors.
7.5 – 8.9 points
Understanding of the ACTU
arguments and remedies is
satisfactory. The coverage
contains only minor omissions,
and/or the description offered is
in parts limited, vague and/or
contains e
ors.
9 – 10.4 points
Understanding of the ACTU
arguments and remedies is very
good. The coverage contains no
omissions, and the description
offered is generally sound, with
only minor limitations, vagueness
and/or e
ors.
10.5 – 11.9 points
Understanding of the ACTU
arguments and remedies is
exceptional. The coverage
contains no omissions, and the
description offered is
comprehensive, and free of
limitations, vagueness and e
ors.
12 – 15 points
Discipline specific
knowledge of the Fair
Work Act 2009, as well
as other policy areas that
egulate Australian
employment relations,
demonstrated through an
understanding of the
usiness and Federal
Government’s response
to the ACTU’s call for
change.
Total: 5 marks (GLO1)
Demonstrates little or no
understanding of the
usiness and Federal
Government’s response to
the ACTU’s call for
change.
0 – 1.4 points
Understanding of the business
and Federal Government’s
esponse to the ACTU’s call
for change is inadequate. The
coverage is limited, and/ the
description offered is
incomplete, extremely vague
and/or contains numerous
e
ors.
1.5 – 2.4 points
Understanding of the business