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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
6 o" A8 o" U/ j' b- P W被政府调查质询2 s' o5 F3 p; T3 W7 t7 C
这个纳税人拥有的银行
* ^3 m4 \9 _0 N% w4 ]1 [( ?07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万, h3 B5 v0 y, a0 e, F# ]+ k! N
却用2600万给员工发奖金" N% M0 M. Z9 O: @2 O8 Z( q- }
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
6 G( b- h4 N+ N, F06-07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. f+ r2 X% K. u5 z6 h" D5 A
0 ^' b3 i7 Z& a) C7 h" ULiberal 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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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.7 W( _& [* A6 D4 ?! p: ]
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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 $262 million target.+ U5 b0 `' ?0 l1 N. t! N$ [# w: ?
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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5 l4 i' T4 ]% Z/ ~. [Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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; P5 C% B' c* u7 f% {0 y' r9 mThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.: @, t, D8 o& J8 e/ s! q7 d [
; r) T. w1 ^% I; `- m; G) N# U6 `4 v- dThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.$ y; t. {, Q( ?- T/ b# h8 U/ t
$ B: c! `3 v! }4 K- j+ ^( RATB’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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& b! E1 X d4 P6 nMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.- z6 F, B- g# K9 z9 G! L9 h
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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.
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) E$ _1 w& P$ Y“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.0 Z- w1 q, ^# H% G- a
# e' p4 A. [+ S: I. ZMacDonald 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.& k5 ], a& T, ^3 W
( q% i4 y5 W5 n" {4 EATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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