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% S h4 _/ P. O, Z" O) c' Y07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,+ @+ {" }8 y$ ^6 l9 @. q
却用2600万给员工发奖金* ] [4 y! \# ?
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万7 S8 i8 H. ^. t) D- y' q& w8 n8 y
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.( w6 F4 \, o1 ]
4 d) r" g/ U$ S- H) A$ J) ~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 }, Q) Z8 z* R3 a: M
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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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) p& s+ Q( j* u# ~( u8 W1 ^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 $262 million target." \4 L$ p; L7 q2 H8 H6 w' d
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.% ?4 A R+ `4 c0 r
e: N! k y3 |Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.! `9 `9 j% x$ d
' I! Q/ U5 M& vThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.- j0 [+ x0 E9 v! e
7 n4 Z. a, P1 t5 e3 r; d; i$ R6 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.- b0 W% \; i4 X7 {
( `5 M- l# U5 X4 P1 _, ~; o" DATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.5 a0 ^2 U7 d T2 c' \! W, H, m' k
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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./ P" f2 v, X; K( M1 ^* l
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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) \$ x T4 t6 F$ B' Y/ m, cThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that./ E! r- E* l, A1 J6 s0 d
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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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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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) U" z) G: t& d0 T% CATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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