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ATB
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0 b5 W( R, O: a1 |. e2 e2 h反而发大笔的奖金1 c* O: C) v6 O" O
被政府调查质询
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, ]! `2 Y9 \9 n) o) L! p07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
* M& ]0 h( R6 Q, L8 H4 ?却用2600万给员工发奖金8 L0 h: y( d0 d2 H8 P4 G+ y# Z0 Q
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
/ T/ X2 q8 a0 U3 o1 M3 A J j% a9 K06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday./ v: L6 s( j6 r J0 N/ B+ T
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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& b# f$ o3 S2 K2 q! e3 p: m4 U2 [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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& m% I9 E9 A, UIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.1 j" R" {9 E, ] _4 d
( s2 M, w8 L! g% m* b- tDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.3 z; O1 w" m9 _' f, A# z' D7 |
2 J; z. L( I/ E4 @0 V' x: d$ F2 J# sThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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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.
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1 K0 ^0 l- K& J( H7 }; \7 H1 ?ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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7 d1 K# _9 h& Z“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote./ T" U0 s1 R$ ]; A6 j0 Z$ e, b. @5 w
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer." ~% a9 f" d* C
, X& j2 f+ i8 m6 O PThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.7 q! |1 M) c/ {
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MacDonald 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.' l& O% u- o* ~2 e- N6 l
; j7 u* X4 c6 I& I" [" GATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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