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ATB
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被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,0 Z( T, S% M# I" X# q8 D
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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. I4 n& z! R4 l; b* SEdmonton — 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.
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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.+ K& l7 O' C, N5 J9 f
3 t# a8 z+ d: H# U+ ODunn’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.& b/ E" L4 E/ R+ a) r
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.0 O, A, r9 S7 h
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.; Y- o9 B9 g: h
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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8 d7 E- k2 ~5 y( R) NMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.# ] t8 r/ I0 u1 i8 ?/ H
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.. o" d; s# e6 T0 ~( G
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MacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.
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, g, d2 }" r$ W/ D' ^% `( v! CATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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