ATB不挣钱反而发大笔奖金

tandog

阿尔伯特省库物署
ATB
大笔投资不赚钱
反而发大笔的奖金
被政府调查质询
这个纳税人拥有的银行
% z/ a* t# E- q7 d; r+ `07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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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2 T) h; K  r* d5 B/ m' cLiberal 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.

+ M5 i  T9 P1 kAuditor 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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; C: Y! b$ B5 u* Z! a. ]# _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.

In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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) c( u& B) k! p, ?$ W/ W. @Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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2 V# G/ k6 q, A: B, [The 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.

ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.

! f. e; K2 x/ T“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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9 Q3 N# `; D7 `! M: FMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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" k; _7 \% h$ h; RThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.

" f% t2 A" {+ ^2 t0 p5 C5 i" e“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.

- l  y& N  z5 N% _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.

Tara2009

因为是a Crown corporation of Alberta Finance

烟雨江南

亦非台

chic8311

我想进去ATB.

yj151

加拿大与中国一样了吗？

天豕爱美丽

真是好公司

carpoool

孤独水仙