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反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
( S/ |# O' O! m% |" j07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
+ K) M$ F: j' M; N! l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2亿七千万1 g. N C! _; P5 X) ]
& M* F5 j2 k% v' |. CEdmonton — 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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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.7 k- Q) \% g, t2 u( z
( q5 C- G# g3 U. }' S* gAuditor 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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6 E% \$ |. g5 y3 _/ A7 {5 xDunn’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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: i! m+ _( a; v; M' n/ jIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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; ^( O4 g: a4 ?7 ZThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.- N% ^, R1 `( P9 Y4 Q8 w% V
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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: |: F0 ?$ ]% w3 F# l3 A" l9 @ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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$ O& F+ W( W k" g& K% y: ~“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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% s8 n s* T$ xMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.% S/ a! J9 l0 }' _0 ~7 t8 z7 U
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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." L3 o6 X& _ i6 j( J3 a4 ^) |
/ l' h, Z. G9 T% T6 U3 R1 s“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.$ e1 |6 O" p5 P0 R
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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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