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.
Mr Howard's critics accused him of seeking to divert attention from his unpopular effort to reform Australia's labour-relations system.
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It uses a more labour-intensive production system than the Japanese firms it competes with to take advantage of low labour costs.
Trade unionists worry that the reforms will reduce union membership, undermining the consensual system of labour relations.
Where there is not the requirement to poach labour, but where it is possible to bring new labour into the production system.
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European skills development models remain diverse reflecting the need to ensure coherence at national level between the education system and labour market conditions and institutions.
But Labour attacked the new system as "flawed and fudged" claiming the bill had as much to do with helping the coalition as with national security.
In some respects, this is an influence for good, since Mr Brown stresses the need for more flexible labour markets if the system is to work.
His localism bill, which will arrive in Parliament soon and is intended to devolve assorted powers to local authorities, will formally abolish Labour's planning system once and for all.
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At the start of the debate, Immigration Minister Damian Green claimed the government had inherited a "chaotic" and "indiscriminate" system from Labour, pledging that the coalition was working hard to get a grip on immigration.
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The Conservatives say the changes - making all seats roughly the same size in terms of registered voters - would help address a historic bias in the electoral system but Labour have accused them of "gerrymandering" - manipulating areas to get a favourable result.
Studies led by Ron Johnston of Bristol University uncover a clear pro-Labour bias in the present system.
The new electoral system means that Labour is certain to lose seats to the other main parties.
These difficulties include an oppressive tax system and a labour code that makes firms wary of hiring.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley blamed the problems on the system inherited from Labour.
Better still would be an effort to reform the tax system and relax labour laws that still hold back the economy.
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said Labour agreed that the tribunal system - which had 218, 000 cases referred to it last year - needed reform.
He backed Labour's the expansion of Labour's city academy system instead.
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Labour says that the old system transferred money from poor taxpayers to rich students, and that the imposition of student fees will help to pay for a bigger university system.
Then peers turn to a whole raft of orders and regulations under the Welfare Reform Act... these are detailed changes to reshape the whole system, and Labour peers have put down a series of "regret" motions against them.
We all know that Labour have long benefited from this system, no-one talked about hybridity then.
In the final days before the budget on March 24th, the Labour government is tinkering with the system.
Insurance companies operate a system of squeezing the labour rate to repairers, restricting their hours allowed to do the job, and taking unnecessary excess payments off drivers.
For Labour, Tessa Jowell agreed the system needed reform but said her party would not have sought to impose a deal if it had still been in government.
As part of this, the project will also assist in the reform of technical and vocational education and training to meet the aspirations of youth and make the system more relevant to labour market needs.
Today we have set objectives for new Labour Government - a world class education system.
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Or does it mean it is a very different education system serving a very different labour market?
But there have been important changes in the way the system treats the Conservatives and Labour, too.
Scottish Labour justice spokeswoman Johann Lamont said the system was in danger of moving in the wrong direction.
But other differences better explain the system's pro-Labour bias (smaller in the 2010 election than in some previous ones).
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