These Terms and Conditions govern the use of the Employee Relations Law Journal (Empl. Relat. Law J.) website, its content, publishing services, manuscript submission system, and related scholarly activities. By accessing or using the journal website, users acknowledge that they have read, understood, and agreed to comply with these Terms and Conditions.

Use of the Website

The website is provided for legitimate academic, educational, research, professional, and informational purposes. Users are expected to use the website responsibly and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and accepted standards of academic and professional conduct.

Users must not use the website or its services for any unlawful, fraudulent, misleading, abusive, or unauthorized purpose.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the website design, editorial materials, logos, text, graphics, and other original content provided by the journal are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

Published scholarly articles are subject to the licensing terms stated on the individual article or journal website. Content published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License may be shared and adapted in accordance with the terms of that license, with appropriate attribution to the original author(s) and source.

Manuscript Submission

Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal are responsible for ensuring that their submissions are original, accurate, and prepared in accordance with the journal's submission requirements and editorial policies.

By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that they have the necessary rights and authority to submit the work and that the manuscript does not knowingly infringe upon the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of third parties.

Submission of a manuscript does not guarantee acceptance or publication. All manuscripts are subject to the journal's editorial assessment and peer-review procedures.

Author Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the information presented in their manuscripts. Authors must appropriately acknowledge sources, disclose relevant conflicts of interest, obtain required permissions, and comply with applicable research and publication ethics requirements.

Any concerns regarding plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication, falsification, authorship, or other forms of research or publication misconduct may be investigated in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policies.

Peer Review

The journal uses a peer-review process to assess submitted manuscripts. Reviewers are expected to evaluate manuscripts objectively, confidentially, and according to relevant academic and ethical standards.

Editorial decisions are based on scholarly quality, relevance, originality, methodological rigor, and other considerations established by the journal. The journal reserves the right to reject, request revisions to, or accept manuscripts at its editorial discretion.

Accuracy of Information

The journal makes reasonable efforts to ensure that information published on its website is accurate and current. However, the journal does not warrant that all website content will always be complete, accurate, uninterrupted, or free from errors.

The journal may modify, update, remove, or correct website content when considered necessary.

External Links

The website may contain links to third-party websites or resources for informational or scholarly purposes. The journal does not control and is not responsible for the content, availability, security, or privacy practices of external websites.

Users access third-party websites at their own discretion and should review the relevant terms and privacy policies of those websites.

Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the journal and its editorial team shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or other losses arising from the use of, or inability to use, the website or its content.

The journal does not guarantee that access to the website or its services will always be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

Privacy

The collection and use of personal information through the journal website and publishing activities are governed by the journal's Privacy Policy. By using the website or submitting information to the journal, users acknowledge that their information may be processed in accordance with that policy.

Changes to These Terms

The journal reserves the right to update or modify these Terms and Conditions when necessary to reflect changes in its publishing practices, website services, legal requirements, or applicable ethical standards.

Updated terms will be published on this page. Continued use of the website following any changes constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions.