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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱5 Y# b2 F1 g0 D& p5 g
反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行0 ?0 r0 P: B! ^# W6 @
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
2 j7 d4 J4 x) p却用2600万给员工发奖金7 X, D) J: J1 y3 i+ A
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
/ e$ ?( @" z7 [. p- C) }06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万( q8 h: A3 ~( \
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.. k( r4 i1 T: A1 Z% v
! E% n# H* d2 QLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.% l; R! V6 E- g- i
9 y( T/ g$ b4 N# O7 P9 SAuditor 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.$ e M* D6 G" @6 W- e% R, t
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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.
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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% A) U! |8 W% fThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed." g% K; |) c) M" ]5 E$ G
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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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. \, h5 P$ A, g. h“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.& R" e& f0 g8 U5 J
8 s' E9 _5 L! P* }, RMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.' X0 X9 n* g2 P- v" U" `7 l( w
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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.7 l: {8 R5 d" T6 z a4 e2 I
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.; D6 C; r+ s; |) o& w; s& f
( Y s) c2 a0 G. Q; l/ {. S5 x3 ~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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