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被政府调查质询
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: W, i3 @. ]9 L% z. Y. }3 y07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,4 f% e% i0 Y$ J$ m2 S; W+ O: F$ W
却用2600万给员工发奖金
: j: ]+ Z: y7 v8 l而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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5 t; w6 _% J6 O {, W/ i4 \1 A% Z6 QEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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, ?; @6 s# P- o9 VLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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# Q {; V6 @( Z* ?Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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3 u5 V! E$ J/ kDunn’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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million./ p4 N @3 d4 k. G& Q- E
5 o! h' k$ ^, j* q! LDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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& K3 h+ e6 m9 D/ w+ L' v3 CThe 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.8 ~5 }( m* k7 |5 c- x
0 U/ L6 _6 f6 L9 F7 ]“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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& ~8 Z/ Q" l" {/ y1 [; ]5 aMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.. J$ ~& C; _( T0 P J3 j
0 q/ _& b9 s3 J# e" o' DThe 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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7 B' ^6 C' h( e* B' h* B' X“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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9 Z0 q+ v& \( b) HMacDonald 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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