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阿尔伯特省库物署
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反而发大笔的奖金 E( a' T8 }$ ~. q3 T5 O7 {
被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,7 |4 S5 ?0 c1 \! b9 P
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
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' i7 ~8 ?+ u7 ^3 H4 ]6 m, WEdmonton — 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.* n+ M. C& s' W. Q/ I+ L
* m# e" |1 G" O: q B5 eLiberal 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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: e5 g. G! p6 H& RDunn’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 $270 million.1 A# X4 P& I" d
% J4 `! t5 S4 O; A4 MDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.$ h# J' P X" m
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.9 _4 E2 |, I9 |, C1 C5 X
8 p4 G+ P- V4 L3 F3 l! |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.; S/ q( U- p6 I) ? H! \, k
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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.
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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.7 O" p7 R5 C3 ~% ?* X/ X
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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$ V% ]. L3 M/ ~1 q0 rMacDonald 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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