National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law (NJLIL)

National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law – Premium & Advanced Research

The National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law (NJLIL) is a respected peer-reviewed publication committed to advancing research in labour legislation, employment relations, industrial governance, workplace safety, employee rights, and evolving labour market policies. This authoritative journal serves legal scholars, HR professionals, industry leaders, policymakers, labour law practitioners, academicians, and researchers dedicated to strengthening India’s labour and industrial law framework.

Covering industrial relations, social security laws, labour reforms, workplace compliance, trade union matters, dispute resolution, occupational safety, and corporate labour policies, the journal offers high-quality, research-driven insights essential for understanding modern workforce dynamics. For professionals seeking credible knowledge on employment regulations and industrial justice, NJLIL provides a comprehensive and reliable academic resource.

What This Journal Covers: Key Focus Areas

The National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law explores essential and emerging themes shaping the Indian and global labour landscape, including:

Criminal Law & Legislative Developments: IPC reforms, statutory changes, legal interpretations, criminal liability principles, and legislative evolution.
Criminal Procedure, Policing & Investigation: CrPC procedures, law enforcement practices, FIR filing, arrests, search and seizure, investigation protocols, and due process safeguards.
Cybercrime, Digital Evidence & Technology Law: Cybersecurity laws, online frauds, digital forensics, digital evidence admissibility, cyber regulations, and technology-related offenses.
Forensic Law & Criminal Evidence: Evidence Act applications, forensic standards, crime scene procedures, DNA analysis, expert testimony, and scientific examinations.
Criminology, Victimology & Penology: Crime causation theories, offender profiling, rehabilitation models, victim rights, restorative justice, corrections, and prison reforms.

Who Should Read This Journal?

NJLIL serves a diverse audience of professionals and scholars, including:

Labour law advocates, consultants, and legal practitioners
HR managers, industrial relations officers, and corporate compliance teams
Academicians, researchers, and university faculty
Government officials, policymakers, and labour welfare officers
Trade union leaders and labour rights organizations

Why It Matters

With rapid labour reforms, technological disruption, and evolving workplace standards, NJLIL plays a crucial role by:

Publishing impactful research on labour legislation, industrial policy, and compliance
Promoting ethical workplace practices and employee protection frameworks
Encouraging transparent employer–employee relationships and fair labour standards
Supporting academic research and legal innovation in the employment sector
Providing a trusted source of judgment analyses, policy insights, and regulatory updates

Through rigorous peer review, expert contributions, and wide accessibility, the journal strengthens understanding of India’s labour and industrial legal environment.

Subscription & Access Options

The National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law offers flexible access for institutions, professionals, and individual readers.

Digital Access

A modern online platform offering instant access to current issues, archives, and a searchable database of peer-reviewed articles.

Print Edition

Professionally printed copies supplied to law colleges, corporate offices, research institutions, libraries, and legal professionals.

Subscription plans, institutional access, and bulk orders are available via STM Journals.

Why Choose STM Journals?

STM Journals is dedicated to academic excellence through:

Rigorous peer review and high-quality research
Extensive reach across universities, institutions, and industries
Multiple access formats (print + digital)
Commitment to advancing legal research, labour rights, and industrial governance

For legal scholars, HR professionals, and industry leaders shaping the future of employment law, the National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law is a trusted and essential knowledge resource.

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About Journal

National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law (NJLIL)

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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.

Focus and Scope:

The National Journal of Labour and Industrial Law has the main objective to focus on the following matters and the various Acts& laws applicable to them:

1. Industrial relations

2. certification of unions, labour

3. management relations, collective bargaining and unfair labour practices;

4. Workplace health and safety;

5. Employment standards, including general holidays, annual leave, working hours, unfair dismissals, minimum wage, layoff procedures and severance pay.

The scope of the Journal covers the following areas:
· Employees State Insurance Act, 1948
· Employees Provident Fund And Misc. Provisions Act, 1952
· The Employment Exchanges(Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959
· Factories Act, 1948
· Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
· Labour Laws (Exemption From Furnishing Returns & Maintaining Registers By
Certain Establishments) Act, 1988
· Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
· Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
· Workmen’s Compensation Act 1923
· The Trade Unions Act, 1926
· Shops and Establishment Act, 1954
· Laws related to wages
· Laws related to child labour
· Law related to contract labour
· Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
· Apprentices Act, 1961
· Checklist of labour law compliance
· Unfair labour practice
· Labour laws in the unorganized sector
· Women labour and the Law
· Industrial relations
· Special points to be noted while drafting Employment Agreement
· important case laws under various labour legislations
· Authorities under the labour law in India

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 [email protected]/ [email protected]

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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Editorial Board

Author’s Guidelines

Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement