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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，1 \! R6 ]( z& _2 {
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万- I2 N, W/ I5 n) x( a6 X ]( e/ }+ u9 {
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.9 O+ ]( n# U0 K% J7 `- w5 ^
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday. i$ F5 ?" E6 W0 S
/ E+ X6 t0 s3 f5 j" YAuditor 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. u F8 o" |" o
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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 $262 million target.: m7 y2 m/ d2 D' v. @! q# N1 s1 |
4 Y$ n! a4 b( H" Y9 g' E, S1 KIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.$ @: a! J6 O" A
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.. l0 M$ d; ]+ L6 l
7 |+ D2 X0 B e" g5 b9 B/ d# t& PThe 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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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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer." |( h! }- x+ b$ L
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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. `4 N. r" K, V
! r1 \ F j7 \9 p% \4 e; ]& }“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.' j8 t6 Z) V% v1 _
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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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