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ATB
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* O! |+ p: |- T反而发大笔的奖金
" [. P- z! @' q; H2 e被政府调查质询# W3 ^/ |5 O* n3 l: Z4 k2 p
这个纳税人拥有的银行- V, T* Z( H- N9 ?! _: x
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,$ y: n& R M8 c1 _ [; O
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.! @+ J1 j1 i2 k* E, f' v& V
, J0 Y0 X% w- R5 {5 dLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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* x. X! `: s9 s9 X: c$ H+ YAuditor 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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( G* Z4 |3 f- b* q6 aDunn’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 $270 million.4 q9 Y, B# F4 o3 G" t7 L
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.7 ~% J+ T8 ?3 ^+ }3 z
4 @3 x) [7 z+ ^; |# u6 ?' S9 ?The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.- j, ]3 ^, _8 _+ ]" F; c
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.9 _* Q ~2 n: _9 k0 d
4 [, J- z. L8 F( P1 NATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.1 Q9 E/ i' r% p; c3 `) I
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.3 _4 E. P+ {) \/ f- ]9 s
% ?% w, @8 E8 ^' w7 q7 eMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.
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8 L( x6 a: w9 p% [, n& E1 ^! {% w; e“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said./ u% W9 ~; O8 t! G! ^
+ S) ?9 \1 l' _* AMacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired." r# N' C8 y5 a6 t7 F7 x/ l( I& ]
! ^2 K, d# H$ | k+ k2 x' B/ IATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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