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大笔投资不赚钱 x( [( j2 W+ w$ J$ u- t
反而发大笔的奖金
$ O) Q7 U6 ^5 X: R# G被政府调查质询6 }; U( u$ @3 P0 F- x, {
这个纳税人拥有的银行
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却用2600万给员工发奖金# |6 v" S6 n) G5 s( \! R2 E/ x
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
7 Q6 F* C) P$ Q% f+ X06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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& @/ l0 n6 j! x9 a2 OEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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9 |) S. c0 u( f% C3 O$ {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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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.$ f4 K) a: H: }4 i0 c3 y" M5 ]7 F+ U
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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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.- c( S9 ^7 t L' Q
( t! b% L7 `) Y; o; X6 LDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.; {$ v: _& n) X& |- T4 S
$ \' r+ A" S1 U+ ?, l1 E4 CThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.4 n% k9 H. v4 q
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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.4 h1 I% C) ?+ s5 m; i& ~# K# Q9 [) j
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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.% Q% D. a3 t, q/ `2 _: g! e6 F
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.+ N* I" Z5 Z6 f& V- D
. K* c' Y' V( f0 j; \$ ~9 FThe 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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4 x" H# q. N4 h0 ~3 W& ]“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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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.4 A2 `/ ?+ b) t& r4 l
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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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