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大笔投资不赚钱/ k9 i" {( z& F, j7 ^5 a
反而发大笔的奖金
0 C2 W5 v1 J7 l+ z1 \- }( E0 J被政府调查质询' }8 n# [# P' @* Y9 h- d. B8 w
这个纳税人拥有的银行. R; r% E: H- c# j
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,; |* b( f' w0 B) N- S9 X* d, J/ ?1 z
却用2600万给员工发奖金& L2 i4 j4 ]- g! _$ B
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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, Q# e) i- D8 c6 f2 }2 t& `( ~# SEdmonton — 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.5 G/ p9 ~5 f# _" }* u' v; w7 a
# p% X& N2 n" z8 |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.0 f- n P9 a/ ^; M5 b, y# c, k% A
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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.
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3 n! B6 J8 s1 l/ LDunn’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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8 P- p6 b; C8 k" w' P4 k7 hIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.* R: ]! v0 ^$ U P
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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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/ f" Y7 _# K0 s5 g& L% g+ L) p, bThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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0 Y d' G7 b2 T3 t5 H% @/ F2 K ]. NThe 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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8 H& w0 W; m! RATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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& S; K/ _/ C8 P! Z$ p“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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% p' x6 F* e* t" k' xMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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4 y/ i/ [9 T0 O" `2 dThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.& H/ m, K$ B7 w# Y; 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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0 V$ @1 _& R& O( w4 i1 a. YMacDonald 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.% i/ O7 h9 L& Q
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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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