Keywords:
1. Perspectives on workplace law and approaches to legal regulation -- 2. Legal sources of the employment relationship -- 3. Institutions and their impact on work arrangements -- 4. Nature of the employment relationship, contracting and concepts of flexible engagement -- 5. Content of the contract of employment - use of incorporated materials and express and implied terms -- 6. Employer and employee duties in the contract of employment -- 7. Termination and remedies at common law -- 8. Unfair and discriminatory dismissals -- 9. The traditional Australian industrial system -- 10. The National system of Federal regulation: from conciliation and arbitration to contemporary enterprise bargaining -- 11. Minimum labour standards and protecting workers: awards, legislation and national and international approaches -- 12. Collective agreement making -- 13. Individual and flexible workplace arrangements -- 14. The bargaining process and the statutory right to strike -- 15. Protection of workplace rights and freedom of association under Federal law -- 16. Trade Unions and the law -- 17. The right to strike and international standards: concepts and challenges -- 18. Common law and statutory controls over industrial action