Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter indicating the author's name, affiliation, the submission's title, the author's email address/contact number and declaration of originality. The submissions will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and External Peer Reviwers.
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The Manuscript submitted must be Anonymous and any submission that disclose the identity or affiliation etc., of author(s) will be outrightly rejected.
Co-Authorship is allowed (No restrictions on number of Authors) but Gift Authorship is strictly prohibited.
Conditions of Publication
4.1 Submission Policy
All submissions to the journal must be original and not under simultaneous consideration by any other publication.
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4.2 Indemnity for Liability
The journal assumes no liability for any infringement, and the author will bear full responsibility and any associated consequences. Additionally, if the journal suffers any loss due to the author's actions, the author will be required to indemnify the journal.
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4.3 Copyright Policy
The articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The author(s) retain copyright in the article. The article may be shared, copied, adapted and redistributed provided appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and the source.
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Authors retain copyright. Authors grant the journal a non-exclusive licence to publish the article. Articles are published under CC BY 4.0. This ensures efficient and consistent handling of requests from third parties to reproduce articles and facilitates wide dissemination of the article. Upon assigning copyright, authors may reuse their own material in other publications, provided that Journal on Labour is acknowledged as the original place of publication and the journal is notified in writing and in advance.
Work submitted for publication must be original, previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If previously published figures, tables, or parts of text are to be included, the copyright holder’s permission must have been obtained prior to submission.
Open Access Statement
We are fully committed to open access publishing. All articles published in the journal are freely available to read, download, and share without subscription or payment barriers.
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Authors retain the copyright to their work and grant the journal a licence to publish. Articles are published under Creative Commons licence, CC BY 4.0, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction of the work with proper attribution.
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Authors are encouraged to deposit the published version of their article in institutional repositories, personal websites, or other open access platforms.
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The journal does not charge any submission or publication fees. We believe that scholarship on labour and social security law should remain accessible to workers, unions, researchers, and policymakers everywhere.