[por] Traz o conceito das máximas de experiência, previstas no Código de Processo Civil e na própria Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho. Traz referência à aplicação das máximas de experiência no processo do trabalho, e destaca a importância de tal matéria, e a hipótese de aplicabilidade.[eng] The present study is the result of the verification of the use of experience rules in the process, specially in the labor process. In the study various experience rules hypotheses perpetrated in the process are considered and there are illustrations dealing with the Tribunal decisions concerning the topic. The study's final section deals specifically with the labor process, as the most important for the institute application and the judicial measures that can be adopted under such a hypothesis.