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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金! C4 `, S8 u# {1 b' }3 O7 T* z2 v
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,' i1 \# W4 j. V: J+ L/ z
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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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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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." e4 F" ^: r* D8 f0 B
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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.
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4 j ]/ @* K* z/ h! t: E- ^! |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. s" m+ O# J3 l
3 V1 I8 j. ]' ]8 g: i( SIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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. H' n) ?- R0 v" z" lDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.- b4 l+ w; e$ F! u1 U* D
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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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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ATB’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.' A( Q4 r" @1 P& l5 H
7 n. M/ p* l. K! f9 GThe 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.. r0 I; h, e: s, W% Q
0 x$ a7 o; c8 vMacDonald 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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