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这个纳税人拥有的银行8 V' ?! Y) e' U6 B5 @
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,: {' m, v, E, \5 ^
却用2600万给员工发奖金8 N4 P' p) ~# k8 t. c
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
; j6 B; {, [, S# q06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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1 D" ~' x9 t! B" n* |" O" ?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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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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q: d- u3 z6 u3 e; [- \3 t: rAuditor 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.! W! ]9 N% @) Y- L6 U
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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.! R, M! l0 h& z* B2 A
6 F8 {4 r) G' i0 w0 D, Y/ }Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets. n3 E9 l4 l( O
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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* ], n% [, }7 v# h2 K* w2 PThe 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.# |- x* m; ?% P
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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.6 x g# v/ C: s8 j0 `
% I% j# q3 d1 g4 \" @# WMacDonald 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." ^/ X Y2 |* k9 o
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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.! i9 u% ]; I1 Y( i a; ~
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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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