This subject is Employment Relations and the assignment is "change the rules campaign' and we have to find out the problems that the ACTU thinks there are, What the ACTU wants, what employment association thinks about them, what the government thinks about the campaign and last the evaluation.
Deakin's Bachelor of Commerce and MBA are internationally EPAS accredited. Deakin Business School is accredited by AACSB. MMH349 Employment Relations Trimester 2 2018 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 relations through an examination of the current industrial laws and employment relations 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 current laws and policies regulating Australian workplace relations. GLO1 Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities. GLO2 Communication ULO4 Analyse the validity of the evidence given by the main actors to support or refute the need to change the current laws and policies regulating Australian workplace relations. 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. https://www.efmd.org/index.php/accreditation-main/epas http://www.aacsb.edu/ Page 2 of 3 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 current 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 required to answer the following questions: 1. What reasons have been put forward by the ACTU to justify its belief that the current ‘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 correct 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 errors if a genuine attempt to apply a correct citation format is evident. Page 3 of 3 - Papers that apply citation to mask plagiarism will be automatically referred 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 receive 0% for the task. 'Day' means a calendar day for electronic submissions. 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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 Rubric – 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 regulate 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 remedies. 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 errors. 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 errors. 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 errors. 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 errors. 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 errors. 12 – 15 points Discipline specific knowledge of the Fair Work Act 2009, as well as other policy areas that regulate Australian employment relations, demonstrated through an understanding of the business and Federal Government’s response to the ACTU’s call for change. Total: 5 marks (GLO1) Demonstrates little or no understanding of the business and Federal Government’s response to the ACTU’s call for change. 0 – 1.4 points Understanding of the business and Federal Government’s response 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 errors. 1.5 – 2.4 points Understanding of the business