Riccardo Del Punta
The author deals with the crisis of Labour Law's epistemological statute in the era of globalization, on the premise that the Labour Law's classical rationale has entered into a decisive crisis and that the constitu-tional foundation, even though important, is not able to fulfill the discí-pline's need for a new legitimacy, which entails a plurality of justifications for Labour Law, the economic one included. The author therefore sug-gests that such legitimacy can be found only on a procedural basis and proposes to use Habermas's legal theory as a possible analytic tool. That leads the author to develop some reflections concerning the quality of communicative process within the current Labour Law's discourse