The government amended the 2006 Labour Act lifting restrictions on forming trade unions in most industries, spokesman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said.
Third is a change in India's labour laws, which act as a serious obstacle to labour-intensive manufacturing.
He said the Law Commission produced a "provocative but very interesting" review five years ago, but the Labour government failed to act on it.
But Labour's careful balancing act between business and the trade unions is getting trickier.
What happened in the end in the Act, because Labour was given one extra authority, they were split.
Twenty-four hours on, this empty Budget has completely unravelled and Labour's failure to act will hit families hard.
Mr Osborne responded that the previous Labour government had failed to act, and created the FSA but did not give it powers extending to criminal sanctions.
In the early 1990s, Pakistan introduced the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, including imprisonment and fines for offenders, and in the past has responded to CNN's reporting on the issue by listing the practical measures it's taken to protect workers.
If unions think that the government is reneging on its promises, it will make Labour's high-wire act harder still.
John Battle, a Catholic Labour politician, says his biggest act of religiously inspired defiance was not a bio-ethical issue but opposing the Iraq war in 2003.
Tory Shadow Minister for Finance Paul Davies sees nothing "other than a fresh attempt by Welsh Labour Ministers to be seen to act on the economy, while spending money which would be better spent by taxpayers themselves".
But Clement Attlee's Labour government had to use the 1911 Act to get the Bill onto the statute book.
The Cabinet Office's comments come after Labour MP Keith Vaz called for the Act to be modernised to bring the monarchy in line with other royal families in Europe.
Johann Lamont (Labour) asked the first minister to act to tackle the increased problem of organised criminals using a range of unregulated private security firms which are operating protection rackets in areas of Scotland.
By the time we next elected AMs, Labour had used the 2006 Government of Wales Act to ban dual candidacy.
So the 2009 Act set out to recognise forced labour as a crime on its own - making it theoretically easier to bring prosecutions.
He went on to say that the Communications Act, passed by the previous Labour government, required the telecoms regulator to ensure that all holders of broadcast licences were fit and proper at all times.
"To have seen the fall of the Thatcher era and to have worked with a Labour government that has introduced a human rights act, a national minimum wage and genuine devolved power to Wales, " he said.
For example, it thinks well of the Labour government's 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which stiffens sentences for racially motivated crimes, and of the Human Rights Act, which comes into force in October and is designed to entrench individual freedoms.
Taxes are already too high - and Labour's plans for even more taxes will act as a drag anchor on recovery.
Labour MP and former minister Denis Macshane said the act needed to be reviewed to cover the press and claimed many FOI request were simply designed simply to seek out "sensationalist tittle-tattle".
At the time, the TUC had been urging the then Labour government to activate part of the Employment Relations Act 1999 outlawing blacklisting because of anecdotal evidence from trade unionists that the problem was increasing.
Not until they learn the lesson of disunity - as did Labour in the 1990s - will they truly get their act together, it is argued.
Earlier, Mr Grayling was quoted in the Sunday Telegraph as saying he would expect a future majority Conservative government to scrap the Human Rights Act - which was introduced under the last Labour government.
The Labour Party told the commission that it supported a generic Referendum Act, an electoral commission and independent formulation of questions.
But Labour suggested it could limit the UK's ability to act independently.
Other proposals to ban live animal exports from Labour MP Gwyn Prosser and an amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act to allow single sex sporting events or clubs from Tory MP Robert Walter are unlikely to receive enough parliamentary time to become law.
Labour's Lord Morgan called for university vice-chancellors to act on this "obvious injustice".
The launch linking Labour leaders at both Westminster and the assembly underlines the difficult balancing act facing politicians post-devolution.
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