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大笔投资不赚钱
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,+ x' ]3 @- J5 W4 l
却用2600万给员工发奖金8 A' F: k% ^7 J; \
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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$ k1 N5 l2 b7 Q1 o6 qEdmonton — 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.; V9 n5 D" G1 [6 |. p7 g! a( R" t
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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.% t8 d! P z' a, [3 J5 d7 _
" H' T) F' x* z6 M' ?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.2 e) i: X. H5 v0 ]
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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; p( v+ g; P6 o! N$ _4 LDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.+ O* `' q; `6 g) s& ? G& D
" k$ G! q4 b- f9 ^" H2 [$ }The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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* l1 r$ G* q2 @- R( S. G0 n% YThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.4 V* I! B0 `' P( i+ Q) L# n
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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# q `4 \5 I" I6 G“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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MacDonald 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.6 H& b. j1 }6 S4 H L( I9 W# |
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said., G" [7 [# q. f. Y
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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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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