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8 i; K% I2 T& D, ?* @大笔投资不赚钱
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,. N: U t8 e" w$ n |
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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* D8 E7 G6 V$ D06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万! F% \ `$ R& i+ I! i B- G
: Y L( z! t& `6 G g' iEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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# @/ u2 p$ Q: kLiberal 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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3 Q B/ }+ o6 \9 p" XDunn’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." s8 a3 Q2 j! R7 w3 Z7 }
9 o4 E) {5 z8 M8 q6 K' N' K! f: BIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.7 _- r9 s$ Y9 T
8 v' X3 C3 d3 O6 ?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.
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% p' v+ @) H! b6 jATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.7 U" r) ~* e1 x/ r2 o8 m; t+ l- 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.5 f+ t$ |. Y4 o3 B( v
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.( X5 ~6 {; ]6 |$ O, |
" [9 G& {$ Y- _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.0 V4 T8 `+ U( B+ [
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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.6 W# l E4 L `
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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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