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阿尔伯特省库物署
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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,
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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.) X0 p8 B2 o; e6 c. a. H w
4 o, ^1 \/ p: h# b# c! e7 `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.1 R `( C' H; Q" U, M
+ b9 }* T8 w3 u; C/ |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.0 d* [! d2 n- ^' H
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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( e1 K5 V& t. E7 V- Y% iDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.; ~# B# b4 |7 Z) q
" ~0 z1 v9 S4 Z7 Y5 u9 x& MThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.4 E2 I/ K1 v5 O* a+ [4 o
& Y: j7 h$ ]6 I# SMacDonald 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.
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8 S1 N/ `& N) H5 x) i8 k“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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) m i4 A% R& r! @. ?, L7 hMacDonald 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. |
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