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被政府调查质询# @ s$ p! B' f1 X1 a
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
, n: ], w. B" _+ t7 k却用2600万给员工发奖金6 {9 B, r5 Z+ _* f' S6 C
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万) i! U* G, ^1 A
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万6 F' i, R, t/ }$ j7 y; x
! X2 {" @* @' bEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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* A. Z; \& j4 d( F- OLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.# q" q5 C! W w' M9 n4 T
+ V/ u9 g5 D1 j0 LAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.- z5 A" p/ p- o: q
) n+ r1 [! S$ i$ jDunn’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.; M7 x) l" `4 @9 Z# W
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.- v4 z3 }& ` q. i& d# G& L
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.6 w$ E0 J8 h2 } P8 j
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.5 @6 \. ]- ?: F9 [9 [6 Z
" p7 x+ ~" p" z! {7 s' y. dThe 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.
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$ F- m% b$ ]7 t' r1 e“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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) K T) l, ~# f. \' f ~MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer. v+ Q* d3 E$ a1 o3 W. S3 V1 h3 n
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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.( d* E, C7 w5 t; K, a1 B9 k/ V
4 g5 { `9 G/ _1 D v0 y“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.; T* k% s2 s: @* G3 Q
9 }- g7 N# z8 K: H: t/ \8 W4 }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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