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反而发大笔的奖金/ |% Y# h H( G; h" J
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,
: N2 j5 ~8 e& x; ]1 ^却用2600万给员工发奖金+ C# U7 w; Z( N8 A8 X9 g
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万6 O+ s- E/ Y) ]0 P
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.6 K. _7 O2 K% v0 u4 ^
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.$ c+ |9 @% {/ ~( V' w4 `# H- W6 q
+ F; L& |5 d: J0 I0 yAuditor 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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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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- H0 z; W- @9 y: W1 K1 eIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.4 }3 T& Z9 B5 G1 A; h' i
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.6 I8 k$ L; \& P
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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* ]' K" @# V7 T. Q3 \7 Q& a. oThe 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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; p0 C* B2 O: b& ~/ Y& ]ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.5 F- |* H$ {9 n+ S5 S( {/ h, \
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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.
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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.) ~+ t- r5 ]* a& c
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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: A2 q) Z0 H/ c5 u2 d% W% W- jMacDonald 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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