The murder of one of its labour-law advisers in March encouraged some of the prime minister's dafter colleagues to link the unions with terrorism.
His most radical proposal was for an overhaul of labour law (if the unions and employers can be persuaded to agree).
The UK does not have an opt-out in this area of EU labour law.
It is also possible, given the wording of the new labour law, that resisting unionisation is illegal.
In May 1999, Massimo D'Antona, a law professor who advised the minister of labour, then a politician of the left, was murdered in Rome.
Furthermore, some of the reforms especially those of pensions and labour law may put the new government in conflict with its core constituencies, such as public servants and trade-union members.
His impressive career scholarships to Radley and Brasenose College, Oxford, the Bar in 1936, silk (Queen's Counsel) in 1957, High Court judge in 1961 had led him by 1965 to become the first chairman of the Law Commission, which was set up by the Labour government to rationalise and codify the statutory laws of England.
But his dilution of spending cuts and of a controversial labour-law reform has looked like weakness.
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The ITUC's Sharan Burrow said that what she called loopholes in the Qatari labour law created "conditions of 21st century slavery".
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At the root of the dispute between the Italian Government and the unions is one article - Article 18 - of the country's labour law.
There would be two effects of such a law: the first obviously to increase labour mobility across State lines.
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But Mrs May accused Labour of being "complacent" on law and order.
There is nothing currently in the law that prevents Labour-controlled councils giving large amounts of money to the Labour Party in this way.
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It was launched amid claims Labour had broken the law preventing the sale of honours, ahead of last year's election, and has since been widened to cover the activities of other parties.
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He provides a detailed narrative of the selection of each Labour and Conservative leader from Andrew Bonar Law, who served briefly as a Tory prime minister in the early 1920s, to the election last year of William Hague as the youngest leader of the Conservative Party this century.
Police are "right" to look again at whether former Labour minister Denis MacShane broke the law in his abuse of parliamentary expenses, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said.
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Labour has promised to pass a freedom of information law at every election since 1974, and even had a bill ready for immediate enactment ahead of the 1992 election.
Ministers want the law changed by the summer, mitigating the prospects of a row at the Labour Party Conference in the autumn, and more importantly reducing the chances of it becoming an issue in a general election campaign, which will begin, at most, in a year's time.
Ms Cooper also set out Labour's plans to make law and order a central theme of its campaign in the forthcoming local elections.
Although no reason was given for this, the bill was not supported by the Labour government at the time and had no chance of becoming law anyway.
The leading case, Alden v Maine, was brought by a group of Maine probation officers suing for back pay under a 1938 federal labour law.
The issue was also raised by Labour spokesman Lord Stevenson of Balmacara who queried the effect of the law on ticket holders "who cannot for good reason be present at the event".
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Those first few hours sum up all the problems of doing business in Indonesia: excessive red tape, unproductive labour, bad infrastructure, a lack of respect for the rule of law and a reputation for lax security.
In fact, the traditional latifundio, with its tied labour, was already almost extinct even before the last land-reform law, of 1961, according to Mr Mora, of the institute.
The current coalition (in which a party of pensioners plays a crucial role) has adopted draft laws on pension and labour-law reform, which will both be contested.
Labour urged the government to accept an amendment seeking the introduction of "Clare's law" in memory of Clare Wood, a Salford woman strangled and set on fire by her ex-partner in 2009.
The resulting scandal caused Lula to lose interest in difficult tax and labour-law reforms in his second term and to forge an alliance with the PMDB, an agglomeration of regional barons with a voracious appetite for patronage and pork.
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