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反而发大笔的奖金& X0 N' V; o* w+ V
被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,5 b0 v0 k0 o! ]9 p! B/ C4 U
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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4 L) ]1 Z9 P6 m( i% VEdmonton — 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.4 y) e5 u) d! ] Q+ n
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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.
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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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. L! Y% A3 R4 O+ y0 IDunn’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 D5 S6 P2 Z! R
) r% R+ q& |4 h" R) {) Q# }In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.; A. S5 H* P I3 y# _6 K
2 N: m/ `$ k# H& XATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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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.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.! X `0 W# K8 s2 c" Q
{8 R4 D7 u- Q4 |) w9 RThe 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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) l5 D( m! b* m( J! P6 h“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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2 n" i# I: d4 W" v+ M& xMacDonald 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.1 L/ D5 P& Y/ C4 R
, P2 W2 p+ j' T) V' m! E/ N+ a* qATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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