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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
6 t8 P: u: W! q# m- t2 h8 ]$ w3 m; x07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，( g. k3 t% B- D7 s
却用2600万给员工发奖金9 `9 ]( m. `, C/ V8 F! x
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万! m/ v9 ^/ j. L0 f; |& M3 e1 b) |
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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. Q5 x' ~+ ^0 UEdmonton — 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.4 ?3 b( U1 w# `8 J* i' n
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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.3 x3 W, Y/ q5 }1 |3 h' I
# M' k' q+ I4 N3 W3 ^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.# ^3 j! K) k8 Q& F }1 q
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.9 U$ j4 `9 N, d! t
# `# D" _1 j/ }! X% E/ C, fThe 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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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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u& S/ Q8 w6 F% z, r4 K! H“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; M' v( b$ _8 Y K0 G8 T" P( n
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.: x* c& u$ ^5 i
/ a5 G( k: r! J2 `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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7 D8 u: E7 Q9 {5 o# z( u9 k- C# h6 v“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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, f1 g$ w" }& P+ H) T0 ~5 N0 OMacDonald 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.7 z2 ] z" N5 \( {6 T5 G" g
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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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