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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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这个纳税人拥有的银行
6 T: O6 y4 ?( v8 C* W# |07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
2 A, F" }5 M' A( u: S+ o却用2600万给员工发奖金8 ?6 e8 {& r5 |8 ^/ m
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万, Y9 `; u _' D
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万8 g3 L8 ^( V: z+ M u
+ `# b8 V* P" X' B9 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.
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) M3 b4 ?' c" K) C- ]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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) I" {% s" j4 w9 Q, |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.) m: z! p1 {& e! L0 P
0 K' N; h: y* e' D; m2 W! cDunn’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.7 T+ g3 r' F1 g& h m% R: }" b% Z
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.8 M b6 [% E- R" Y6 Z
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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1 I# V) G S* x+ I1 ^4 lThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.( _* h8 O# L u4 V* d7 j- I( v5 F
& O* [2 j4 Y5 |! UATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.0 D) |8 M9 w( }0 F1 q' `1 |2 O
/ _6 }& B$ t2 Y- y0 Q) H! b“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.6 Z6 f5 h- s( z0 T+ Y1 W
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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( J# @; r7 T2 B( V4 x- nThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that." B }5 a& R7 f# `4 W
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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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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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6 C* Z+ E4 N0 G" b: B+ |7 |, [ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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