About the Journal
National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law (NJLIL)
ISSN: 2583-6498
Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF): 5.444
Index Copernicus (ICV) 2024 = 62.82
DOI- 10.37591/NJLIL
Editor-in-Chief
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Journal’s Summary
National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law is a peer- reviewed journal encircling the labour law, also known as employment law and is about the body of laws, administrative rulings and precedents which address the legal rights and restrictions on working people and their organizations. As such, it mediates many aspects of the relationship between trade unions, employers and employees. In other words, Labour law defines the rights and obligations as workers, union members and employers in the workplace. Journal of Labour and Industrial Law gives scholars, practitioners and professionals an opportunity or platform for research in the field of law and current case studies on industrial disputes and submit the valuable findings in the form of review paper, research paper, case studies, short article, book review etc. It's a biannual journal (frequency January-June and July-December), started in 2018.
Focus & Scope
- Labour and Employment Law: Research on legal frameworks governing employment relationships, workers’ rights, employer obligations, workplace regulation, contracts of employment, termination, wages, working conditions, and evolving standards of labour protection.
- Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining: Studies on employer–employee relations, trade unions, collective bargaining, industrial disputes, strikes, lockouts, grievance procedures, negotiation, conciliation, adjudication, and mechanisms for maintaining industrial harmony.
- Labour Codes and Legislative Reforms: Research on contemporary labour-law reforms in India, including the Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code, Code on Social Security, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, together with their implementation, interpretation, and policy implications.
- Wages, Bonus, and Employment Benefits: Studies on minimum wages, equal remuneration, payment of wages, bonus, incentives, gratuity, leave benefits, compensation, and legal mechanisms designed to ensure fair and timely remuneration.
- Social Security and Employee Welfare: Research on provident fund, employee insurance, pensions, maternity benefits, gratuity, welfare schemes, social-security coverage, and legal protections for workers in formal and informal employment.
- Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions: Studies on workplace safety, occupational health, industrial accidents, hazardous employment, factory regulation, working hours, welfare facilities, employer liability, and regulatory compliance concerning safe working environments.
- Trade Unions and Workers’ Representation: Research on registration, recognition, governance, rights and liabilities of trade unions, freedom of association, union activities, collective representation, unfair labour practices, and institutional mechanisms for protecting workers’ interests.
- Employment Contracts and Workplace Rights: Studies on appointment terms, service conditions, confidentiality, non-compete clauses, disciplinary action, suspension, dismissal, redundancy, retrenchment, workplace policies, and the rights and responsibilities arising from employment agreements.
- Women, Gender, and Equality at Work: Research on equal pay, maternity protection, workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, gender equality, work-life balance, representation, and legal measures promoting safe and equitable employment.
- Informal, Contract, Migrant, and Gig Workers: Studies on legal protection for contract labour, migrant workers, domestic workers, platform and gig workers, casual labour, and workers in the unorganized sector, including questions of classification, welfare, social security, and access to remedies.
- Child Labour, Apprenticeship, and Skill Development: Research on child and adolescent labour regulation, apprenticeship law, vocational training, skill development, employability, and legal frameworks governing training-based employment relationships.
- Labour Law Compliance and Corporate Responsibility: Studies on statutory registers, returns, inspections, audits, workplace policies, employer compliance systems, labour due diligence, corporate responsibility, and regulatory enforcement in employment matters.
- Industrial Disputes and Labour Adjudication: Research on labour courts, industrial tribunals, conciliation officers, arbitration, mediation, dispute settlement, reinstatement, back wages, compensation, and judicial review of labour and employment disputes.
- Discrimination, Human Rights, and Dignity at Work: Studies on equality, dignity, freedom from discrimination, disability rights, caste-related workplace discrimination, harassment, forced labour, bonded labour, and the human-rights dimensions of employment law.
- Technology and the Future of Work: Research on automation, artificial intelligence, remote work, digital monitoring, algorithmic management, platform employment, workplace privacy, data protection, and legal challenges arising from technology-driven changes in employment.
- International and Comparative Labour Law: Studies on International Labour Organization standards, international labour conventions, comparative employment law, transnational labour rights, global supply chains, cross-border employment, and comparative approaches to worker protection.
- Indian Labour and Industrial Law: Research on Indian labour and employment legislation, judicial decisions, labour administration, industrial relations, social-security frameworks, regulatory reforms, and contemporary developments affecting employers and workers. The journal also welcomes comparative and interdisciplinary scholarship where labour or industrial law forms the central legal contribution.
Readership: Graduate/ Postgraduate students, Research Scholars, Faculties, Industrialists, Independent Professionals, Government institutions
Indexing: The Journal is indexed in Google Scholar
Submission of Paper:
All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its focus and scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.
Manuscripts are invited from academicians, students, research scholars, industrialists, independent professionals and faculties for publication consideration.
Papers are accepted for editorial consideration through email lawjournals@celnet.in/ cle@celnet.in
Subject: Labour, Law, Industrial relations, bargaining
Plagiarism: All the articles will be checked through Plagiarism Software before publication.
Abbreviation: NJLIL
Frequency: Two issues per year
Peer Reviewed Policy:
Peer review is the most important part of the scientific publication process. Peer review is basically the process of engaging experts to review the articles submitted for publication in journals, this is done in order to validate the research and to enhance the quality of the articles that are published in the journal.
The peer review process is actually a demarcating line that decides what a research is and what is merely a hypothesis. This process screens the articles for their originality or work, their relevance to the previously published work and does the work meet the required standard so as to be published as a research article. The bottom line to conduct a peer review is to eliminate the possibility that science is just another opinion.
Basic design of a peer review process:
1) The process begins with the submission of article to the journal
2) The first step begins as the editor of the journal checks if the article falls under the focus and scope of the journal. If the article does not fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is rejected with feedback and necessary changes to the author, if the article do fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is forwarded to the next step of review.
3) Here the reviewer checks for the originality, validity, significance, theory , evidence and other parameters based on the guidelines of the editors and yardsticks to measure the quality of the article.
4) Reviewer then make necessary comments and send the paper back to the editorial board, a reviewer may accept the paper as it is, reject or suggest changes in the manuscript, this information is conveyed to the authors
5) Editor of the journal then make final decision to publish the article based on the reviewers comments. And finalize the time frame for publishing the article.
6) Finally the accepted articles appear in the publication.
For further details on the publishing process and guidelines that an author and editor should follow, and to know more about the yardstick of the reviewers we would suggest you to go through the Author and Editors Guidelines.
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