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1 ^; L# G1 ^& M8 m3 G大笔投资不赚钱
$ o0 v2 V( m2 T1 o6 Q* @7 M. [反而发大笔的奖金
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, b1 V" r3 @% g! B% D07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
6 K2 K. U. D. O* g4 r) P却用2600万给员工发奖金
' p. G+ P% }2 B而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
4 q1 t6 \9 G; |: T06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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2 l) U# Q1 A' Q; \2 p g1 uEdmonton — 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.6 J- A4 S6 v2 ?4 D5 d
" H C& v& D& \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.* V& M& ~8 d' ^- V
v& g" f7 p/ B2 I# w) ?1 hAuditor 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.1 i! n% H* F- ^* G2 A: C
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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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: P x0 g* i8 z ]6 WIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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" N$ J' X _* p; }$ u& NDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.* d7 ~0 i) |6 }* b
1 G! T- T4 D6 P' |The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.+ m, W. {8 C$ f& s0 u T; {
; U" C8 r0 C9 F* j! y7 @0 Z! B$ nThe 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.2 U* n2 \& I8 }- M
& J! B6 s- Y; V5 U“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.
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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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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$ Q% K2 `8 q; F9 ]2 }$ B1 z) D8 {- I6 `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.1 D% L+ o+ p' z( K
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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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