Bankers' compensation is also being modified — for example, pay is being allowed to be clawed back in future years if there are losses.
The Industrial Development Authority does not have contract language that would allow it to claw back tax subsidies should FreshDirect fail to deliver on the thousand jobs.
Firms are starting to insert provisions in employment contracts, however, allowing them to claw back compensation from employees who violate the law.
That can involve making sure that banks have employment agreements in place that allow banks to "claw back" pay if trades don't work out.
RBS is one of the few companies that still takes advantage of rules that allow it to "claw back" part of the payments from company pension schemes when members become old enough to start drawing a state pension.
Trade-in schemes run by phone manufacturers and carriers allow people to claw back some value from their old device; the higher-value handsets are refurbished and resold, while those of little market value are recycled.
But Marc Marot, former chairman of the Resale Rights Society, which calls for a levy on secondary site transactions to allow artists to claw back profits made by touts and fans, said: "The music industry believes that sites such as Seatwave are in fact swamped by organised brokers".
It has taken until this month for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDICC) to finalise new rules, based on powers it gained under Dodd-Frank, that allow it to claw back up to two years of pay and bonuses from senior executives and directors deemed to be responsible for a financial firm's failure.
Targets to double the combined firm's sales by 2015 look entirely unrealistic, but the hope is that its clout and expertise will allow it to claw its way back to the big league.There are a few, very Indian, loose ends a lawsuit by Mr Raju's relatives, who say they have lost out, and a claim by the taxman, who appears, ludicrously, to want to tax the fictional profits.
It is designed to allow Germany to claw back taxes from German depositors hiding money in Swiss banks.
