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ATB
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! c, k8 [! D4 U反而发大笔的奖金, F* q) r7 X" U R- ^
被政府调查质询" Y: \9 k8 q3 L% U q
这个纳税人拥有的银行. U$ f- y& W1 c3 C! J- q
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
5 v# e& U8 y* o! ^: c5 X却用2600万给员工发奖金, r" t0 P e& ~$ K
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万; c( c+ F N8 S
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万: Z O4 _4 L! ~: R$ E1 a1 G# a
$ }9 `) o4 R9 K. j2 f; x- Q$ tEdmonton — 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.; \' j1 T& u! p% j6 W+ d" G
3 k! I, i& T6 N mDunn’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 $262 million target.' x/ k' t/ ~; x' W9 T2 r* z
# o, j$ D9 E" i8 g6 UIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.1 O& Q+ p5 n- F, P7 W, ?. a
) Z+ z$ k" x/ R/ UDunn 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.
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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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7 ~# Z- o2 u5 `ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south./ B* M J' m- `3 B0 x) ?
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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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" F8 m8 R! _* `MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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/ L' G( A) e8 s" A4 s% eThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.# U: c7 g e$ O: P* g
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.! C: }; H- d. F4 c1 \- W
6 y3 D% F6 c( ?$ @3 q4 x& q2 j/ iMacDonald 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.4 v; _$ h" s7 i; ^ W6 y
9 w- Y7 ~0 u7 l. I0 B6 H" s) sATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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