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阿尔伯特省库物署
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反而发大笔的奖金0 c3 y4 V( F+ p
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这个纳税人拥有的银行4 j/ M0 z- |" T8 `9 \9 T4 ~/ e
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,* n# P1 o$ g. X1 E. K2 B) V3 w
却用2600万给员工发奖金
2 p; n9 U6 P0 K而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万% P( x% @4 I/ v0 F) q5 S. N( r, r. C
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万, f b4 v |9 \2 ]6 U* r
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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.7 G* L8 X, `7 W( U" s
; |' d% O! |4 k& ]# T; V7 f" pLiberal 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. q2 D: U! p: R5 {
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Dunn’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 $262 million target., J0 W8 a$ ~6 x. _: B3 i$ D6 }( C
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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: a, {- ^4 C9 t: F; D0 t; rDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets., {4 c5 y5 G5 Z$ u7 x* c3 V3 X
3 v# N: Z# x; O0 ?$ Y" |The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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% Q/ r7 E* W, ZThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.# T4 Q- \8 L% ]% N, x* t
7 B. T4 Q8 e1 Z$ tATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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+ s# [! |% g# e+ m, |0 b9 m4 W) P“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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer. g0 w; U) x: |5 f
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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.# l( ~7 E6 {% @
; K5 l$ R* {- v, L1 t) @“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.# n, G1 y i( {" T3 I+ t0 G
1 u# Z: i. y& ^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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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