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反而发大笔的奖金- [8 C6 |$ g/ U0 t! ~* x1 w
被政府调查质询
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" ^( W! K! f7 t, X1 f: d4 y/ B0 E07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
! m6 I8 [7 r+ d2 c6 N7 q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2亿七千万7 _, T& \9 ^5 ~3 ^0 {
% b/ k: x3 q. f" ]5 ^8 iEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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9 e( t1 y4 e$ Q7 {8 ?2 Y8 u' r. u% JLiberal 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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* Y1 ^) y) e0 j4 S0 [( wAuditor 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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2 _5 F3 O" G3 q; X1 G2 D5 r5 u' pIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.5 V( e5 Z& E1 @# x6 n8 w7 Q
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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' e1 W b! h+ Y: ]$ i0 P W5 k, mThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.( n0 K; m1 z3 |2 R$ D4 a* k
0 E1 ]$ f5 N8 i" k7 O3 N* x5 t# }ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.; X/ Q# ?3 J1 w
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MacDonald 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.$ X+ z8 R$ }0 G7 P
6 c6 A2 \0 _& ?7 W, b5 ?) @6 j“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said./ u$ A; j# @& l8 A+ X: k
. w9 `$ k7 N( t& sMacDonald 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.8 l" @7 R5 t8 z4 H/ N7 y; }; A# B
" ~' e" U" g7 c7 o7 k- fATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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