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阿尔伯特省库物署
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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/ Y: G) O! d+ `; A! C% r
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
4 M# n5 S! p9 M06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万& s$ L4 a' ?. ~1 R# z- z: q7 P
4 h/ I3 b* Y3 g% f. PEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.2 }5 c: {4 e# D6 b* `3 v* o
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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$ i* d& Q( {8 F. S* Q% |4 w% LDunn’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.! \* U3 F) z- x+ v3 w! ?* x
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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8 C6 j& g; |+ l+ c. T! C6 P; uThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.+ G0 P2 b; ?" m2 K. F
* k; K4 m1 Q' ?( bThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.* J$ c4 B3 F2 X+ [4 e
7 V r% ]* {6 s9 A$ ]5 e2 HATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.+ C: d7 H5 z* x
/ h5 |# n; T% D! d“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.1 z8 `! Y' P& o) Z
/ r& O. g" I" x, EMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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: |# I3 |& P' }The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.9 l; g! j. W3 E4 i- c
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.1 X! V1 T" m. t# C7 A
+ @9 Z2 h/ q6 i2 N1 \- Y6 i2 N. 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.4 |* y* R) z2 p0 C; J
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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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