Employment Law

AY2016/2017 Semester 1

Employment Law is critical to managing human capital. This course focuses on the employment law in Singapore as a foundation for an understanding of the employment relationship and its incidents. Some of these issues and problems include drafting employment contracts, the minimum mandatory protection for employees, wrongful or unfair dismissals, and work safety and compensation for injuries caused at work. Besides a sound working grasp of the basic legal principles, the course is also intended to provide perspectives, theoretical and practical, from which to critically assess the possible solutions and the law's responses to vital problems commonly encountered both in Singapore and abroad. A selected few topics are given a comparative international treatment.