Overview

The Labour and Employment Relations program offered by The University of the West Indies aims to develop a cadre of graduate students with a high level and comprehensive understanding of labour history, labour relations, and employment issues confronted in the workplace, develop advanced abilities in analysis and independent work which will equip them to deal skillfully with new circumstances and issues arising in the workplace and provide graduates with the necessary tools for a greater degree of understanding and management of labour relations.

Key features

What Will I Study?

• Industrial and employment relations systems.

• Legal regulations encompassing industrial relations and the role that the law serves in shaping employment and industrial relations.

• How  to apply effective industrial and employment relations strategies.

• The tools and methodologies for effective labour management relations.

• How to advise government, employers’ and workers’ representatives on industrial and employment relations issues.

Careers

The programme prepares students for the enhancement of their careers in human resource management, industrial and labour relations, labour economics or as trade union or labour researchers.