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大笔投资不赚钱; ~% L2 W! }( L. V: T
反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行4 T5 I3 V$ s8 S- R
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,. s* b( g8 ~& T, Z
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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( i+ _2 h9 L8 lEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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' z6 B0 k9 E6 h: jLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.4 I7 [8 {$ _5 E1 |* s* j. Z; Z
: }$ E. H+ y7 t1 z& DAuditor 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.0 e2 Y& C2 v8 J& U1 Z
" K* D) v9 g t4 H0 p6 TDunn’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 $262 million target.
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# k$ U" d$ @; b( f$ X' U# JIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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+ Q0 s- s6 l3 _- j' x( rDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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% p& Q4 _7 [ K$ k# aThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.! W& x! R" }2 o+ I5 ~& R
" u9 ?/ ], \$ q- {: O/ _" h/ VThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.! u. Z g [" S' P
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.7 j* x' E6 w$ D/ E
, [& v# R1 T4 T w“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.) v+ h: s0 d ?5 Q( r4 E
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.+ N2 i) o! g! I3 j: h
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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.
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, ~$ g( R- t& w/ H A' ~/ K4 c“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.$ s% @! T: Y# ^5 q
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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.
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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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