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反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行8 z' f9 A' E) }9 [2 X& X/ ]
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
$ w" e3 }+ [: t9 z/ O; Z& A3 y06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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* o& T- l3 o/ L, [& z4 a* }Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.! O1 a7 e- {, g, [" R: k* u7 x
% b K. v$ I0 a4 YLiberal 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.) h8 K% d' \% G
5 X- p* k, m% y$ e4 q+ u6 _4 A+ K" ^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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( b5 m8 b; \9 }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 $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.7 K G' S( I# z- r
0 M' Y+ w* Y9 V: l2 @- LThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.+ z( ? N2 v3 y- a A/ M
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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4 n( l- {0 E8 R; ]) @ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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' p8 m9 j/ d9 S9 {" q“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.* A j$ W$ J; c. N' P( T x
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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.* f1 P/ H, F4 k
9 t+ Y9 ]+ S0 H$ o# K* a1 C+ IATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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