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反而发大笔的奖金
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! ^" q5 V0 F& l07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，: e, f8 `) E8 M9 F5 G
却用2600万给员工发奖金
1 P( E/ c+ m5 G2 x而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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! |" d, ?# v* x: t0 fEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee." I) Z$ L$ J4 T, Z/ [
# N5 a5 Z% g% dLiberal 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." }! T* `7 Z3 B3 f! C5 D
+ b! B: @0 J T) OAuditor 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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) y2 o4 M ~- dDunn’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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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# B0 V3 O# E8 N7 m( R3 FDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.2 j" J4 S! b" J) ^2 o7 C/ M1 k; v
: L* a) |, D$ zThe 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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- Y' n8 Q+ v! v( Z2 G' Q- _& g“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote., z5 F" U% f2 }7 }
! g7 q8 K5 m+ i5 F8 h! kMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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/ i" o* ^6 g* r/ U1 R5 V8 @( PThe 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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- O$ H! u& f, @; ~+ D! o7 I“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.% l' F; |! `+ \7 s
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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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5 d8 H( w3 s; E* L- l9 L# rATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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