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大笔投资不赚钱
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
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却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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9 p- {* V* @; o: i+ QEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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% A1 _ d" f- V% bLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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+ E$ [3 D$ I2 ?1 d, E- _Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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Dunn’s annual report, released last week, said ATB earned a net income of $30 million in the 2007-08 fiscal year, a fraction of its $262 million target.
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.% D) k' B ^0 |4 e9 @' r
' h/ ^6 c# R' F; D" g, `( W FDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.9 b# P6 P" C8 F0 `" ~- V( M
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.* W. h5 I# p- z! {7 B
+ ]7 B8 H- M* D) ^; @, x5 dATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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( h& t3 Y( d' C“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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2 `9 V- B+ P" Q7 p; bMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.* u: M" R$ V' }) u1 l! P
" Q- M- a9 M# t“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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% u: G7 P) v0 K' H8 a; m; o; ~0 E6 qMacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.( ~6 H2 V; O. F9 `$ J b9 u
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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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