But rumours of the allegations which range from overpaying local staff to offering kickbacks for contracts—highlight the difficulties for foreign investors posed by President Raúl Castro's incremental approach to reform.After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr Castro's brother and predecessor, Fidel, decided that Cuba had to court foreign investment to survive.
Asked about the ICIJ findings, ICCAT's Executive Secretary Driss Meski said: "We are explaining to contracting parties the difficulties we are facing using these [BCD] documents.
Mark B. Dunkerley, the chief executive of Hawaiian Airlines, which bucked the trend by posting profits last year and completed a new labor contract, said that the difficulty in the airline industry "is that when times are good, people assume they will last forever".
But Keith Vaz, chair of the influential Home Affairs Select Committee, accused the government of failing to monitor the contracts "despite knowing the difficulties with G4S".
Trans-national corporations are also a way to respond to imperfect international markets where transactions are very costly because of the need to ensure the quality of the produce purchased and the difficulty to enforce contracts signed with foreign operators.
For those who manage to get themselves a training contract or pupilage, the difficulties will not end there.
Furthermore, nurses on permanent contract may be more likely to report errors because of the difficulty in having their state contracts or jobs rescinded, due to extremely slow bureaucratic processing by the government [ 56].
Delta and United face the prospect of tougher terms in August and January respectively, when their credit-card contracts with the banks are up for renewal.Beyond the support of interested and profitable parts of the aviation food-chain, and the difficulty of revising labour contracts and pension promises, there is another huge obstacle to a general shake-out that would slash capacity.
If the contract is meant to be a device that illustrates how people would have given their consent, on the other hand, then the difficulty is that a hypothetical contract "is no contract at all" (Dworkin, 1977, p. 151).
Among the challenges, the difficulty of writing effective contracts with employees is an understudied cause.
"The difficulty is there are contracts to be honoured, things to be ironed out between the chairman and the players and the Professional Footballers Associationn who will probably get involved as well".
