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反而发大笔的奖金 H6 v6 b1 D0 t5 i* u5 H
被政府调查质询
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/ r- q$ H* Q. F: W07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，$ s( J- _: u7 U& Y: A( o
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万$ l+ L0 `+ |" q5 I
" @6 {: r. c; R. cEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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; ^" ^* s" C J* vLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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+ N: M8 G, p% ?& q: ^$ kAuditor 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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; n) K3 c! x1 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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2 d3 k9 J; o0 g: q4 f( OIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.6 p# F/ N9 B0 J) ~" O9 t! Z/ N. A* l
6 Q/ t/ L, i; N# s9 M% [. n8 eDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.0 J0 \0 s& Q) q* V
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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! {* V' ?6 z6 L* X$ ^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./ s" f# L7 {' ^" T! N# s
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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.2 x0 b) {* q# B a
+ S' k; L% U) \5 R( nMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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4 r1 }5 Y8 [8 _6 n6 `) sThe 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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1 z8 s$ @/ h9 X& o+ g+ L( h! ]; P“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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/ H- q( y: y/ ?7 H6 K6 r# j8 VMacDonald 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./ Y* f) Y' G$ `& G# P6 w
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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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