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阿尔伯特省库物署
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2 l! m% k' U/ w反而发大笔的奖金9 C, q$ W( U: K+ p, M3 i
被政府调查质询. ~* }6 \; U7 E/ F( h8 U* ?* N3 {
这个纳税人拥有的银行
, p+ K/ o* X# Z, I5 T( h07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,8 K7 I& W N( @' {' Q* w: F/ r0 |
却用2600万给员工发奖金$ g( z# d& t. ^7 c- \; z7 X$ _
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万6 O d9 H2 W( E. v
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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! ~4 w, v" l4 L* I/ X, u% QEdmonton — 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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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." M2 v k" d0 v! ?* m/ S0 R) W
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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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0 n! V2 l* C9 n, QDunn’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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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' U/ ^4 a" d N' O+ F2 `% pDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.8 F. h# D4 T/ ~. d$ i
7 m9 [) j; T+ o# H& QThe 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. z, t$ ]5 F. Z+ k# q" N
" Q. F' C2 B- \" Q+ [, C3 UATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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9 R, F: D9 W- p& ^0 [“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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- {' G/ \. U% Y4 q' m% MMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The 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.
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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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$ E& v- J$ ^/ ]2 s# y3 B f9 p# MATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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