It has reduced social-security contributions for low-paid workers and eliminated contributions for home helps.
It was set up in 2005 to protect low-paid workers and oversees treatment of about 500, 000 workers.
Twenty years ago, foreigners, mostly low-paid workers from the Indian subcontinent, made up less than half the population.
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They also tend to reduce wage disparities between age groups and sexes, since low-paid workers are often young or female.
It did mean, however, that even low-paid workers would have enough to pay into a personal pension to make it viable.
Changes to employers' national-insurance contributions will make it cheaper to employ low-paid workers, but costlier to employ people on high incomes.
Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt said women were the most likely to benefit because they made up the majority of low-paid workers.
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He also hailed moves to take millions of low-paid workers out of income tax, freeze council tax bills and deliver the largest-ever increase in the state pension.
But Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said he was determined to ensure "additional protection for low-paid workers" as part of reforms to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.
There is a sensible argument to be had about immigration and population (see article), and whether this wave of low-paid workers has put pressure on wages.
The precision of the Brussels heist suggests extensive help from airport insiders, said air-security experts, who noted that all airports employ thousands of low-paid workers and face high staff turnover.
He said if the shortfall was as much as he feared it would mean adding at least 20p to the cost of every car park visit, which would hit low-paid workers the hardest.
But it would also cut across another new policy, which imposes income tax for the first time on many low-paid workers, a plan which most economists expect will kill off up to 1m jobs.
Speaking on Friday, Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, also set out her campaign objectives, promising to focus on opposing the government's welfare cuts, supporting low-paid workers and protecting the green belt.
Prime Minister David Cameron has written to colleagues, the Mail on Sunday reported, to say they cannot expect low-paid workers like nurses and dinner ladies to "take on a burden we are not prepared to assume for ourselves".
For decades, the export of electronic waste from the United States and Europe to Asia has raised concerns about the impact on local environments and the low-paid workers who dismantle toxic-laden computers and other gear to recover valuable metals and parts.
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Many are not salaried Tepco staff but low-paid contract workers lodging in Iwaki, just south of the exclusion zone.
Mr Stern has raised union membership at the SEIU by targeting low-paid service workers in firms such as those owned by private equity.
The building, constructed on the edge of a canal, fell down on top of three flimsy homes where scores of low-paid garment workers and labourers lived.
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However, sympathy for the low-paid healthcare workers grew when senators advocated a hike in their own salaries in March, and it was revealed that their pay package with benefits included was already well in excess of middle-class norms.
So firms have hired more low-paid, low-productivity workers.
It has created caution in all parties that serves no-one well, least of all the claimants, who are mostly low-paid, female workers.
John Edmonds, general secretary of the GMB union, said low-paid public sector workers would not be impressed by the gesture, which he said Lord Irvine had been "shamed into".
Like others in low-paid jobs, care-workers do not in the main belong to unions.
Others trap workers in low-paid fields such as child care, and some even signal to employers the holder's weak academic record.
Fear of these setbacks has also climbed up the social ladder: not just factory workers and low-paid service employees but also managers and engineers.
The stereotype has giant companies shifting production from one country to another in search of the cheapest sources of labour, without regard for the well-being of either the high-wage workers who stand to lose their jobs or the low-paid ones who will be hired.
But several legal rulings and other delays have led to a large number of workers, many of them low-paid women employees, taking equal pay cases to employment tribunals.
Since that would benefit only the half of French workers who have to pay income-tax, his equivalent bonbon for about 9m low-paid was to lower the rate at which they would have to pay two charges levied on all workers to help pay for health and unemployment insurance.
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