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反而发大笔的奖金' F# o5 B0 b; t. j' c2 e2 f. J/ E2 x$ g
被政府调查质询
# _" U) d8 m5 _- @! c这个纳税人拥有的银行
' _, T: n! s/ D' A! J07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
1 ~" l, v, V5 _& @却用2600万给员工发奖金
1 @. h7 F, C0 a; p C而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
]% ?: q' a3 o% H06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万# Q" \. z4 n( I1 N
$ w5 K! P1 w4 [' ^8 } JEdmonton — 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 l" a8 D" R- s- }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.0 H: ` h2 W- H! H- n1 O) Z" O- y/ w
+ A) a/ Q. h. `, KAuditor 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.. d1 [/ W) m* C* F. ~
1 s0 X X x6 n# XDunn’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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0 \3 \% u- P% H; O- r; R4 _In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.1 ] P1 O" E; r N1 ?% I# [
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.4 ?. a* J' C2 j0 q
( F7 F3 t8 n& O, ~“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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" @' [4 M) E3 M5 I5 v' QMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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4 j' }4 S: ^+ t: j7 W3 r) WThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.% l' l! E( A/ `! {0 E9 X
1 h1 M. k( {$ b9 }“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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0 i0 I* I* O! y+ \( DMacDonald 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.. d8 x, a/ j/ `- c
; m! p. ]* A2 x. GATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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