Postgraduate Diploma in Labour Law at University of the Free State

Programme overview

The Postgraduate Diploma in Labour Law is an NQF level 8, 120-credit qualification that prepares graduates to specialise in labour law. It is offered in English on a full-time online basis, with face-to-face examinations at designated UFS venues.

Faculty: Faculty of Law | Department: Centre for Labour Law (Mercantile Law) | Intake: One intake per year; online applications between April and September of the year before study | Study mode: full-time | Location: Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

What you will study

Six 20-credit modules: Introduction to Labour Law, Collective Labour Law, Industrial Action and Unfair Labour Practices, Dispute Resolution and Employment Equity (compulsory), plus one elective, either Social Legislation or Dispute Resolution Practice. Dispute Resolution Practice includes a compulsory one-week in-person practical workshop and is required for those wishing to become Bargaining Council Commissioners. Assessment is continuous, through assignments and tests.

Career pathways

Suited to legal practitioners, human resources officers, trade unionists, aspirant Commissioners and Bargaining Council panellists, and people working in dispute resolution and industrial relations.

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Application information

Entry requirements

An applicable bachelor's degree (NQF level 7 or 8) or an applicable advanced diploma (NQF level 7). Alternatively, an applicable NQF level 6 diploma with at least five years of relevant labour-related (not administrative) work experience, completion of three UFS Centre for Labour Law short learning programmes (Basic Principles of Labour Law, Advanced Principles of Labour Law and one other) and the recognition of prior learning process; or a National Senior Certificate with at least seven years of relevant labour-related work experience, completion of four short learning programmes (Basic and Advanced Principles of Labour Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Basic Principles of Social Security Law) and the RPL process.

Tuition is charged per module, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Postgraduate diploma applications open on 1 April; local applicants close 30 September and international applicants close 31 August (Economic and Management Sciences); Health Sciences postgraduate diplomas close 30 September for both local and international applicants.

Apply through the official page: https://www.ufs.ac.za/prospective/study-at-ufs/apply

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