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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱5 j) W& q# V. @% P. }% |1 K
反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行' m6 L" U' D- h) q& v
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
# I6 {! S% _" H5 P0 g( E却用2600万给员工发奖金, K" t3 K P' Y0 k+ B
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万 T7 S# d4 O, Y3 b" B( K L4 E) g
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万+ B. W5 K2 [8 t) c# b
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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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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 $262 million target.' T, X$ M- v" S% X
) H' f( W# u* a9 JIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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, I4 r( M( z8 S" R* g, FThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.% ~9 \% _2 L" J3 R5 f: N- _+ V) D, T( @
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.2 Z. j/ W! S7 u9 }$ Q4 b K9 p+ 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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“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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4 h+ k8 e) p# ^- bMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.0 ^& y2 h' f4 x7 B3 y* l5 q$ \
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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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8 P5 H$ n! D: s5 Z+ _! ^7 s+ T“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.$ J; X6 A$ I* v8 ~2 [
7 o- {! x; i: M. p2 ~0 uMacDonald 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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# U0 \% b1 L' k- R# f- gATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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