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ATB
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被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,9 N8 d7 M3 P. _+ E
却用2600万给员工发奖金4 @* n" O m1 N" Z, S9 i* z2 m" b7 y7 q
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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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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; U: S# q2 T; W; u. ]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.; \; r8 {( Z7 g) {, \
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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.) X& e( C+ D( G9 a
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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& c5 M* F# K, {. e9 lThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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1 C9 `2 G) g- C! nThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.: \- j8 I! V: w
4 `0 w0 N6 D& B( w6 X/ EATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.1 y* o/ c1 b4 i7 T I# z
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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$ Q% X/ `" Q7 z- u9 B. x& j% D! AMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.! S8 l$ V% M8 L9 G+ n7 x, R
+ P; _# O5 q# NThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.7 A) V3 G2 F. o
5 L% a! s/ p, L. e“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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- ^0 O: z) G, d4 s$ V/ I1 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.3 x% Q2 D9 d: Z! i0 e( I/ u5 C
6 E9 |6 u5 x) j; `: p4 G, SATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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