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阿尔伯特省库物署
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被政府调查质询9 i4 F8 `( q+ c
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却用2600万给员工发奖金/ @) r6 J. ^% s! x
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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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.; H: i8 K4 q1 L5 {& O& [
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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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# R) z5 p+ X% ~! MAuditor 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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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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+ i# ]5 f/ e- H1 U- q! a! s8 TIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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; |2 }! F, E3 J1 Q$ UThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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( @5 n5 B/ O3 x, t' ~9 UThe 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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( ^% P0 c0 j s5 Y( Y5 ?8 cATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.. L9 L+ m8 _: y' T. u
+ \1 d5 n. A. q# |' Q“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., V5 s. J3 A+ I6 ]
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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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/ {9 X" E6 u/ C. ^- H1 }# b7 | C“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said." q8 j+ h1 ~( b ~ P T# y+ }
9 u+ \0 ^% }+ n, a! L, |- UMacDonald 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.4 L$ o/ x/ @; s7 ~
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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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