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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
( C* L, |) ~, C+ b; w% D07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，$ S4 @2 G& a% m! r
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万, @1 F+ P! t$ g3 ?1 i i
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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.
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9 c/ Y& A4 S0 h. z( |3 ~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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4 V2 Q2 o4 x% U2 nAuditor 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.( L4 [7 ]; r& x9 W8 j4 V
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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 $262 million target.
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' `' K0 X$ H1 O/ W7 ^In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.5 U) r3 h" S. h! F Q# z
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.0 `, L* F3 |; {& r) O
5 T: s/ M* ]- C. H: hThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.6 I0 d- Q: f+ C/ X( m" J3 \1 h- }) `3 @
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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0 L0 o6 y- r0 V# tATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.5 b+ T D- B4 @0 ]
9 R5 A- s/ w0 k8 _9 f* Q+ aThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.
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% |4 Y. J2 G1 j+ q) N“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.- E+ }+ I: w: f7 I
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MacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.7 V! e5 n$ E: |/ i2 w% g8 K3 ?4 h
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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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