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阿尔伯特省库物署
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D7 X7 U9 l9 ^07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,1 A! _" B+ \( p9 T
却用2600万给员工发奖金
5 R" k( T2 d5 {. d而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万2 ?1 T' f9 @: H: N' s# E1 \9 [9 X
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万5 o+ l, b4 M: o0 M( ~- K$ l1 }0 w
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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# _ F8 w$ [
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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.
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) q. I T$ s6 @0 a z g' |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.9 E1 C Y( N) p; b* D# z
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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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+ Z# J" N3 T0 {0 b% SIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.8 p1 _% K: h8 ^. \5 f- R1 X
2 f- j: M3 \- Y0 {2 zThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.$ s8 d E; F5 l; Z/ M, n% V
% q4 A% K- q& D6 a4 RThe 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.+ B' \3 V- ?% Q; X
4 [; b3 b2 F* j“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., n; c) w0 t! l# |
+ t3 U$ U! ?3 H& o' q tThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.& F3 L( J/ J0 U
$ C( Z8 j) \0 Y/ m {6 ]“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.6 z' C$ M" D: @2 ?" t2 O/ x% Q
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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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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