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被政府调查质询7 i6 i8 V1 q4 J J# Y3 M
这个纳税人拥有的银行
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却用2600万给员工发奖金
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' A" D/ F. W U2 _$ h6 K9 MEdmonton — 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.4 y0 J' R; {. Y/ J% R8 [
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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.- O' c8 n! P% J6 Z4 e1 U! o) G# E
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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.5 _5 V* V; }! @9 k0 v+ T
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.7 v8 h9 |5 e3 ]& o: Y
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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% l, U, _- Q! u: W# f) s# _The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.6 E, O- S# G( L+ D: m
; y0 n. S8 S/ b& vThe 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.
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0 U# G4 d5 n4 c/ `, k& b5 s# A; 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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said., K! K+ i- i: Q/ M" `6 P( z, t0 |
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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.
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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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