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大笔投资不赚钱, w+ f. {' ^+ O
反而发大笔的奖金- A I8 d! O/ s5 C! r
被政府调查质询# M- V5 F& b* ?# G m. B- ^
这个纳税人拥有的银行 X6 R% r2 I) d6 z, ], Z0 M0 u+ {
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
5 ]3 J6 ]% p+ L4 l% R却用2600万给员工发奖金
; E8 Y+ I$ I% B8 L1 _, i# U2 J而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
9 ^ p" T3 I1 c9 H06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万. d- h) z8 Q2 v+ D& ~8 i8 v
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.3 z# u$ c6 |# ], _& h4 X- C# e
k2 a2 A+ d5 o# |3 B' t) lLiberal 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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! n, o- t D6 O1 T& o$ N& g9 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 $262 million target.5 D7 n$ l g& s0 s; _
) K- O& }) \/ m1 ^1 sIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.# y) s8 A6 O% n+ ~
- j4 p: y2 `2 D: B1 [7 I" ]5 YThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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( ?2 K8 a C$ O8 }6 pThe 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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. x& A A9 W! l: J, ~+ e- k: RATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south./ f0 J/ y( x' v5 a# G
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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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1 D9 Z v& }5 j6 Y0 _2 HMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.) v- q7 q/ b( [5 V8 b! r" z
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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.- _0 N' `3 S) ~( p X0 a" {
% _& H" k* e& q( D* V9 m1 ]“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.9 b0 _" ^/ J C8 r; ^
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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 D7 b/ J! N) {( E. L
$ |9 ]; F4 y( U7 ]! q# cATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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