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反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
8 _, F$ ]# v" ~9 D1 z+ g, Y07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,; D# b2 p6 |' e' B" M
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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) Q2 p$ P7 a4 f6 O06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万, N4 d* \ h: M, F. ?
/ K' `3 c- _& Z* S. u/ cEdmonton — 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.! C. C+ o+ g0 I
& K" ^: e3 o2 T: v; @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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" e8 q) L* t4 o8 c5 _4 S5 ?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.# s! A G7 P, F `" [( K
1 P; I8 M# c6 t! N( p# v: b+ h, rDunn’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.( g# I0 @. I' Z h* y' n/ r ]* u
3 K" c+ x' h0 o0 I. X8 ?In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million./ B* h" q2 ~1 d9 E, }
# W! j7 I5 M, G5 g4 kDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.5 n# ^+ k" g/ w! h. o6 ? j" r" p
: G. V, b5 S+ lThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed. u5 D# C M- T
7 k9 h$ u! ~, `& _4 h' {ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.3 g) X: G. L" u- g* g( z
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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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; a5 `# p+ V& U4 s- D- H! [MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.4 r0 w. i; }0 q7 W) y4 Z5 i
3 c' F W/ B2 U% {, H, X9 V' k+ oThe 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.7 ~1 a- H5 L: e" N
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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.
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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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