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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询& B6 l' b1 F% |" S4 t
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却用2600万给员工发奖金1 h. w0 _: |7 Y) ~6 w( \
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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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.
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; u( ^2 i3 X: U2 I8 Y0 RLiberal 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.9 @' l# c( p# V- `
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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 $270 million.
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* n" t3 I- O6 g* R& f" i! c0 `! eDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.7 _5 f# Z' M7 X8 ]3 K- w1 O3 E# U
8 z9 M1 x7 M) b/ _$ J4 I" EThe 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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( X6 S5 z! h7 Q. v/ }5 LATB’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.. g+ ]& ^* ?4 m2 f' g, e! J/ o& m9 ?
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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: I) W5 ^% R$ OThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that." p9 |8 E, A# y
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.: n& u9 `, f5 @+ N4 `/ U
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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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