Britons must get a "fair crack of the whip" when it comes to competing for jobs with immigrants, Ed Miliband will say later.
In a party political broadcast, the party leader will admit Labour got the immigration issue wrong while in power and should not have dismissed the concerns raised by ordinary people.
He will insist that diversity is "good for Britain", but will say that migration needs to work for all of the country's people, not just some.
Reducing the number of low-skilled migrants coming to the UK will be part of Labour's "new approach" to the issue.
Tougher enforcement of the minimum wage will be among the measures he suggests, along with tighter controls on employment agencies to stop migrant workers being brought in from overseas to undercut homegrown staff.
Miliband: 'Rules need to be fair' The broadcast - to be shown on TV channels in England this evening - comes ahead of a major speech by shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper on Thursday, in which she is expected to set out a raft of new policies.
These include more prosecutions and higher fines for paying less than the minimum wage, as well measures to tackle "gangmasters" employing illegal migrants in the social care, hospitality and construction industries - including a ban on housing workers in over-crowded accommodation.
Ms Cooper is also expected to detail proposed reforms of the immigration system and action to improve the training of UK workers so they can fill jobs in shortage occupations.
Aides said Labour's "long thought-through" approach contrasted with the "kite-flying" of Government ministers, who have floated a range of possible initiatives to limit Romanian and Bulgarian immigration when the countries' nationals gain full freedom of access to the UK at the end of the year.
Labour argues that policies must address the key "pull-factor" for low-skilled migrants, which is the availability of work.
In his broadcast, Mr Miliband will say: "Britain's diversity is a source of our great strength. It makes us a more successful country.
"But people can lose out if migration isn't properly managed. The pace of change can be too fast or people can see their wages undercut.
"Low-skill migration has been too high and we need to bring it down.
"That means the maximum transitional controls for new countries coming in from eastern Europe; it means properly enforcing the minimum wage so people aren't brought here to undercut workers already here; and it means let's give proper training to workers already here so that they have a fighting chance of filling the vacancies that exist.
"There's nothing wrong in employing people from abroad, but the rules need to be fair so that local people get a fair crack of the whip."
Mr Miliband will promise a boost to English language teaching to new migrants, along with an English-speaking requirement for all state employees working face-to-face with the public.
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