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But they can affect social change and this week, with Liam Byrne launching a youth employment taskforce, Labour councils adopting the living wage, Caroline Flint launching SwitchTogether, a scheme to get communities to negotiate lower energy bills, and Jim Murphy getting employers to help former soldiers find jobs, the party is making an effort to show it can make a difference.
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Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash said the taskforce had responded with "great alacrity" to concerns surrounding migrant workers.
It also acknowledges the work of Jubelin's taskforce.
Taskforce officers also use helmet cams.
Liam Byrne, the shadow work and pensions secretary, has launched a youth jobs taskforce, which will involve local Labour leaders working on employment initiatives.
In the wake of the 7-Eleven scandal – where franchisees were discovered to be paying as little as $5 an hour to workers – the minister for employment, Michaelia Cash, announced the establishment of a migrant workers taskforce, charged with weeding out and reforming worker exploitation in the Australian economy.
"The deputy prime minister's taskforce has finished its work.
It was a cross-government taskforce which looked at children and adolescent mental health services, employment and how to reduce the number of people with mental health problems in prisons and police cells," a spokeswoman said.
Fels' taskforce – which will include representation from the departments of immigration, employment, education, as well as the tax office, attorney general's office, the border force and the fair work ombudsman – has a broad remit to identify the systemic "weakness that create the conditions that allow exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers … and make improvements to stamp out exploitation".
An emergency taskforce was set up by the Irish government last year to tackle the illegal employment of Asian and African migrants in its fleet.
The CBI said the planned exploitation taskforce should focus on criminal activity and not "blur the lines" with enforcing employment law.
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