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大笔投资不赚钱
1 W- _ J% {+ I& _5 F6 A: Q4 ~反而发大笔的奖金
( C2 ?5 `/ L( P/ J6 F+ y被政府调查质询
8 L/ L3 N9 [3 K3 f0 I! i这个纳税人拥有的银行) }. u" b5 X) d
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
2 D8 `: y& A, i4 y' z0 y却用2600万给员工发奖金
$ l6 Y) }$ b2 U% V7 f$ x9 S而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
9 G, B/ H# O6 c w3 Q* L- a5 U06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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( ^0 f" h5 q9 V( h9 HEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee." g& o3 K6 ^6 Q$ x; G
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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.
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* |. ?* R, M% x3 Y/ [! K0 @, Y0 H" RAuditor 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.4 t. i* T6 d4 ]! d( {
& n( ^5 d% v: `( ^! M! @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 $262 million target.
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: O+ I' J) c% O) t" g$ AIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.. D. B: L; U l
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.! g3 o" o5 [0 j; J6 s* S* d
% [4 @8 s. p4 l$ B1 z9 ~! ]The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake." O t1 l. f) l
" t, n& P3 @& x3 w& l5 y mThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.! s5 ~8 u+ @: ^" W. `
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.2 ` T: y: g5 s* m 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. Y! Z5 c) _4 o- p$ G8 w. n+ v0 N
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.# T# m# E1 `9 r6 U6 W
' U, h! S0 y% C7 g7 _0 a- uThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.& \( g5 J; }' S2 s' r) W% s4 j5 V5 B
/ [# D7 D, u# g+ x, y% y“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.8 |' X6 E, u2 f5 z, j; ]) M
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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. Q& `0 `5 Q2 T/ f; x
2 w8 S. f; b6 i) u9 s/ Z( oATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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