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7 K0 `# \6 r& O% ]) |大笔投资不赚钱
m0 g3 {1 T5 u4 _3 r4 ^& G反而发大笔的奖金
7 Y9 N1 M6 i# r: M5 W' i被政府调查质询7 E* q: ^7 n/ O
这个纳税人拥有的银行1 u% a- K/ X1 s0 T4 F
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，7 P+ q) u: l2 d- N2 E" U. C! p4 {
却用2600万给员工发奖金( [' t* _" z+ \ I$ S1 t0 Y1 P/ A$ S5 r
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万; ]8 N& e1 ~4 e" o
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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1 R5 o: L5 b( a: u$ }4 g3 tEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.9 C6 [! G: d" v1 D- O* ]; T" j
8 f) S& @* P! x2 t4 a( K+ ^Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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3 M8 g7 T$ ?; \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.6 t/ P4 H: j( B/ g* a
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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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.& _$ e5 Z8 w$ q/ D8 `6 R8 l' g
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.+ ^0 Y. x* W6 s3 i V. x% t
7 d2 U( L4 k# T H2 p1 U. gThe 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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3 C3 z, i/ j- I/ pATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.# S8 z& G- Y g' d* w( k
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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.+ x5 g" v2 K5 G l1 U7 F4 `, N5 f
1 [& u+ E5 ^+ Y9 C2 n0 `! \: JMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer., w4 {' I! ^, S9 H
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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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.0 x7 u+ } R6 B# `2 `
; _8 _9 n# k3 |+ eMacDonald 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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