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ATB
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被政府调查质询
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, `$ p, Z1 m, R" k5 {; P07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
5 B( \3 H3 W2 j( v却用2600万给员工发奖金3 c" W/ C1 N1 N0 N4 o3 C
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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4 t1 {3 S$ H9 S6 mEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.( z0 N! d: c$ E0 W% t: F0 O6 ^
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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.* ?% M2 b9 g7 p2 e" p1 J) |- G3 L
7 h& j% [9 J+ Q! o8 I. a& qDunn’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.' v' ^! Z+ J; a; e% r
2 O0 v% Q. ^- n5 a% u, O# GIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.( @/ ^8 C* p7 E9 y4 [
, ?6 L6 x3 V4 c- I& YThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.+ S$ I, s2 c$ t, D) ?- U' l
3 n3 D, v3 O* W) r: HThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.# h% O; e9 q( M
- j! _/ C8 f( b$ I% ^ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.) E: {2 Y% g9 H( |2 S
3 y" i* u6 B- \# c" 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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% M) i5 u( B( j; ?/ v% iMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.( [1 @ x% }! J( [ q+ {( H* l- Z* f( q, P
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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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: t6 b9 d9 e3 M5 e7 u“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.6 d" d7 w# _; W7 U! B% d9 r
; y0 h( x* s) K( B9 ?$ `2 u# IATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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