Labour law is rightly considered to be a "geo-law", on the one hand firmly entrenched in its territory and on the other anchored to the protections offered by state law. In liquid modernity, however, labour law comes adrift from its anchorage in the territory and loses the sovereignty of nation states, so is deprived of its traditional constituent foundations. While there is a noticeable decline in forms of collective regulation and the state is gradually retreating from intervening in the labour market, liquid modernity brings an increase in normative pluralism in which firms claim to the right to regulate themselves and where decentralised forms of regulation predominate, in the form of public-private co-management and of governance. Although the change in the law does not depend on the rise of a new "form of law", the normative phenomenon is confirmed as a variable that depends on a prevailing climate of social change that thus influences both rules and political decisions
Keywords: Labour law - Liquid modernity - Governance - Legal pluralism - State