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大笔投资不赚钱
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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，# l, \7 G0 j9 ?" \* W
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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1 C0 Z$ H9 k; V, z& zEdmonton — 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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2 k1 |8 N2 K+ r; ~+ t. n+ 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.0 B: `9 j5 L2 a. N
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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.
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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.8 A ]5 J; u- }
( Y. O( P m1 ZIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million. r; g' D8 U9 C9 b; s( i: Q
& g8 @9 w. P! I) |( T, v# H4 Q" d* xDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.$ V* F# g" d, e S
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.9 O6 n8 A/ ]. j1 s
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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.( N7 E; j, W* ]
* `: o q* R# ?4 eATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.2 ?) B- e# Q* `" N
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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.+ b( z+ P* u, o3 L
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.7 u0 j! B v6 F
' }! G ] x8 i% {' K# i+ v- [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.
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2 b; X; ^+ k( m7 n3 D9 N) hMacDonald 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., _ d" B4 n9 ?6 ]* H- M
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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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