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大笔投资不赚钱 S& H2 N! f1 s+ P2 H
反而发大笔的奖金
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- u6 H; i( b4 ^( A z这个纳税人拥有的银行
. u5 H1 ?- s% o# V' b07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,, Z3 O6 k/ e/ Y6 E' R
却用2600万给员工发奖金& D; ?' P% }) k( t, r+ t
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万+ s3 a- E1 {' \* a6 _
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万. x7 s2 s3 h$ v! |
8 M7 p- ^7 a# A9 l9 c8 fEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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: v' i6 I; W( p2 c5 X& d% lLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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+ b1 M0 p/ f5 oAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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3 q* n# D m( V$ V8 i* UDunn’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.5 m0 A% ~8 l, I! r
7 S) i+ Z) N( i( ]In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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7 P, x; K9 A& V) }& l0 x' }& wDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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( p+ |4 }# W b7 iThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed./ K4 V6 n3 l* D+ K$ V- O% q
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.1 a% w/ M" D- W. h' K' {! N+ M+ S
9 p/ n$ L/ C X# ^& ~9 L“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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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- P! y* R& j0 t. a" \: u" Z- iThe 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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.! O. J2 f0 `) }5 T( u) x! D, i* R7 }
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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.' r/ M% w% v" S) t( E) ?) F
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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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