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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询$ V6 t: L+ a3 I( d4 _9 y: B
这个纳税人拥有的银行( u1 L2 {# |' d4 [
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,$ F$ `2 q6 X- o1 m
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2亿七千万9 @2 `) L# D3 t5 C
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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.2 g4 y! G, r9 o' A- X3 y
( W# R1 D- g; _( J& T3 |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.0 Y: H9 W, T/ ] q
P4 t5 r. Y3 x6 v' P& HDunn’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., u; y, b) @9 O X! M8 z' h
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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$ z4 L$ V) p, P, j- I$ aDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.0 x: p" X& U) \
# c7 ?; E9 _- R/ c# t) A6 yThe 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.
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7 a& w1 x) `( t+ ^9 g; FATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.9 B8 E" V6 [0 R5 d: @
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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.( S% w. }8 j l! Q6 d
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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.. X9 i7 q1 }7 r2 P; y. f2 }" g/ y
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.0 `! \2 o+ s/ B2 n% P& ~
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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.' P# S# K2 t" ~
' ^' P+ S+ i3 SATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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