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反而发大笔的奖金2 \: N! k* [+ b. [
被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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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.
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' H0 F. p @5 y* X8 ?( a3 h. lLiberal 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.' w* U7 M ]% ?7 E
6 w0 Y' {5 C' |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.0 e2 U& D7 i# H, x! {
! T+ ] Y9 M8 Z3 BDunn’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.; J: i/ W9 w0 X( D6 G
6 q V, B% ^3 }& m2 ]: ^In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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- N9 T: f9 S( e) \$ x) gDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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0 ~* r9 N# @$ PThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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: ^+ _' I0 Q& `0 aThe 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.0 I7 w9 B8 x0 o
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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.: G! b. l+ o/ _& ?
/ e1 J4 h. ? d, [MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.% U, D: C2 s- f4 Y% I
" P% u) b2 F+ ?6 U$ E% _: M* TThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.7 X7 c$ n0 j+ Z* }6 @
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.6 Q: d! A; a* x4 J# w$ w5 E
8 _5 r. e( P" b" ^9 g: N- k4 bMacDonald 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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