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大笔投资不赚钱# }$ C2 G& R5 p/ a- Z
反而发大笔的奖金
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
9 _/ D# E: M- a/ L% z却用2600万给员工发奖金/ P" W. k& L6 V+ E4 [( ]
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万0 r% J5 f1 {" r5 c9 C
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万" ?. r( e5 b* o. A) B: ~9 f
- c5 D% w: t* rEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.3 h: V; h) J0 F: L
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.8 s) p; E8 F; }6 L1 `4 s
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.1 K# Z; N* r' G# K
! M% ?$ I Q* A1 j1 W1 R3 }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.- L; X6 i& y2 o
/ J+ b9 x! o# A0 X: UIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.8 E$ J. ~" k9 J1 Q+ ?
* c0 z, ~0 L# Y% f: W6 A, ^Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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, Y0 X" v9 ?$ ?( b4 {$ ^The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.1 m$ G5 b/ B1 z
5 B0 h9 z; q" U/ q2 dThe 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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1 j, I U5 z& t' Z6 ?' ~) r1 oATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.# t- ^2 C) i3 R' E7 J7 I% H/ y8 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.3 `9 |$ P5 ~/ w+ X. y# ?
8 k1 t4 \8 b5 A+ z4 n' \MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.# m7 l$ u- n$ |
; w; Z0 ]; g- h7 w7 a. |6 N: HThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.# W ~( Y3 z3 b2 N4 ~
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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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# t! l8 l9 B4 Y2 z: jMacDonald 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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# ?2 Z, L' _$ A, {: yATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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