INTRODUCTION
Advocacy and representation is designed to provide you with a new understanding of your role as a communicator and representative and the voice piece for your constituents.
In this module, students will be given practical tasks to complete, with an emphasis on utilising core skills required within meetings, courts and tribunals and other workplace situations.
Objectives:
The objective of this module is to re-awaken skills and confidence to assist in better representation and advocacy.
Participants shall be asked to identify particular training needs as part of this process, and ongoing assistance will be provided in steering learnings and practice in a way to meet those needs.
INTRODUCTION
The contemporary practice component of this course shall focus on those aspects of a practitioner's professional skills set, that need to be constantly fine-tuned in order to best serve their clients, employers and stakeholders.
In this session we shall look at both the macro and micro-settings that are relevant to the activity of industrial relations, particularly as they are being shaped by national productivity, inflation and wage demand.
Objectives:
As part of the learning objectives, participants shall:
(i) Learn to think strategically in a bid to become more meaningful and better understand the social, economic and political landscape.
(ii) Commence the practice of learning how to integrate new skills and forms of inquiry into policy, and day to day implementation of effective industrial relations decision making.
Readings:
| See.AJ, A new way of working, productivity and wages bargaining |
| RBF May Economic Review 2025 |
Introductory lecture (powerpoint)
INTRODUCTION
In this module we will look at the establishment of the Employment Relations Tribunal and Court and examine the scope of their existing powers and how they can be effectively used in the management of the system of industrial relations.
Objectives:
Participants will explore when and why the formal bodies - the Employment Relations Tribunal and Court - should and could be used to facilitate and improve workplace relationships.
Readings and materials:
| Employment Relations Act 2007 |
Introductory lecture (powerpoint)
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this module is to reinforce the central aspects of the Fijian Labour Law. The emphasis will be on the existing laws, however will look at the Employment Relations Bill 2025 and considers its implications from a practitioners point of view.
Objectives:
Readings:
| Draft Employment Relations Act Amendment Bill 2025 |
Introductory lecture (powerpoint)
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this module is to provide participants with a good understand of how and why the system of industrial relations has evolved. The unit will pay particular attention for the need to bring together formal processes and institutional participants so as to achieve social and economic order.
Objectives:
The objectives of this module are:
(i) To give participants a solid understanding of how and why the institutional arrangements that make up the Fijian IR system have been formed; and
(ii) To clarify the discrete roles of the industrial parties, in developing relationships that have the potential to achieve co-operation and positive approaches to resolving conflict in the workplace.
Readings:
Introductory lecture (powerpoint)
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