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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金5 |3 J5 j% x$ A9 O, @* U
被政府调查质询0 T. ?0 G$ D# d$ o1 g: x
这个纳税人拥有的银行( }! E3 S/ {" J
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,8 D+ p4 B- ]% r" x" M
却用2600万给员工发奖金6 Z* \+ ~: U3 q. t9 x/ z; X+ `
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
- U# [. c3 a0 b06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万- O9 h4 a! [( @2 ?( D) i3 g
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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' X3 c' Z, [' c7 G7 zLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.( \7 c5 i+ [, d+ ], R6 L8 H$ p2 Q
Z% c3 Y& V6 Q8 ?/ P: dAuditor 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.% n: G! d0 U; r S+ \. s
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million. p6 Y" U# _% R0 n
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.* z! y, O8 n7 K. I
9 P$ n2 f' F" [) i* H" XThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.8 K, |" o) i7 c. ~3 S4 D5 t
; j/ P5 F) F$ o! i! {; sThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.' s% {7 i) [- a# f3 s: ~
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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.
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/ N% @7 H* j0 I5 XThe 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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) @% ]- `# L% z6 l" G: U' a' F" N“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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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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. w+ y2 P2 _6 ], w" Z# `4 pATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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