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Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal

Publication Ethics Statement

Plagiarism and Redundant Publication

The CLLPJ may check for plagiarism and suspected plagiarism may be grounds for rejection of a submission and may be grounds for retraction or correction of a published manuscript. Similarly, and consistent with the CLLPJ’s exclusive submission policy, the General Editors reserve the right to check for redundant or self-plagiarized submissions, which may be grounds for rejection of the submission. Each case will be evaluated individually by the General Editors

Conflict of Interest

Authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest. Submissions by an editorial board member or general editor will be handled separately by other editors and, where this process results in someone other than a General Editor acting as the editor for the manuscript, this will be disclosed on publication.

Human Participant Research Ethics

Human participant research reported in manuscripts submitted to the CLLPJ must be conducted ethically, meet all legal requirements of the relevant jurisdiction, and must be approved by relevant research ethics boards.
Authors are responsible for ensuring compliance with these requirements and must certify that research ethics approval was obtained as part of the submission process. The methods section of the manuscript must provide a description of the use of human participant research and the research protocol, including the scope of consent for disclosure of participant information. Canadian researchers must comply with the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. Editors may request documentation of ethics review and approval certification.

Artificial Intelligence Use

The CLLPJ has adopted the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) position statement on authorship and AI tools. Therefore, AI tools cannot be listed as an author, and authors utilizing AI tools for writing, images, data collection or analysis, must clearly disclose this in a methods section of the manuscript. This disclosure must include which AI tool was used and how it was used. Use of AI exclusively for the purposes of correction of grammar, idiom, punctuation, spelling and sentence mechanics does not require disclosure. Authors remain fully responsible for their manuscript, including any part generated by an AI tool.