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/ V4 [9 h% w1 i8 _6 i1 X大笔投资不赚钱
5 Q0 E$ U6 a2 }: y2 e反而发大笔的奖金
! A6 m1 Q4 R" \5 r6 D被政府调查质询
) K- P! p0 J4 t这个纳税人拥有的银行
( {. |; \* w( N8 Q: W! S07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
$ u3 \) f2 r$ {0 m4 n& X却用2600万给员工发奖金; E( E5 O7 B: J* P$ K, Z0 N
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
/ e. x0 o0 h2 {) J$ ]2 {8 I5 b y06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.3 ]* o2 t4 i2 i' Y8 A$ U+ p
! O4 Q# [4 F s5 }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.3 k |0 h- |* [0 a
/ ?( j5 m' F7 zAuditor 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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% w7 z0 {( E) M8 M1 } l! a2 r# ^4 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 $270 million.* A" u% E2 w1 J d' o/ O( p7 I. V
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.! ^3 ~& Z, N6 @
9 [1 {' b+ X( @' |& l G ~3 J7 |The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.1 ^4 `: l4 g) K3 V) k, J
( {6 |+ p$ X9 ^4 a7 Y: Q$ s/ c, \ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.( _+ b+ ~$ H u" L9 U5 B$ |
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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.4 s$ l8 g4 o& {" P% ]
3 N7 X& Q- R' i) h5 wMacDonald 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.1 e" e6 y+ M; W+ f W1 b6 o2 j- E' b
) j% d2 H+ }% M6 a“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said./ Z6 ^6 G- I9 _ L9 \
' m3 G# v: | `1 j# a( N( `( GMacDonald 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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