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被政府调查质询; L1 E* }: {! @* w$ l0 Q
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6 `( b& Z6 m" E) q07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，# k' b5 E6 r9 H9 G; y6 C3 S0 R) J
却用2600万给员工发奖金/ f- Y6 t' S. R e' _
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万6 H$ C/ P. u) _5 I2 v; c a5 U
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万 X) F) S7 p+ B5 Z! Q8 F
4 z+ E# y- u/ V5 yEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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# b9 G& l) f% S9 fLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.9 S9 ^( `$ A0 C' R3 f- z
8 v; A: h% w& M! C- a6 b! m' Q* JAuditor 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.2 m. e; Q; g* h4 ?6 F! i3 ^
6 N9 V% P# m9 [. r- nDunn’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 $270 million.) r& S; S* K+ L
' u" d4 m" c& {9 ? BDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.+ }- X) P* m( |7 w ~, R
1 x2 A5 u2 G# bThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.6 A7 _. h* d( L% T. Y
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.! P: ?" G/ n5 l& s* R( u7 Y
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.' u O5 Q; m# z
! u; z1 U! d7 k! `“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.. N! ~& U2 L! l
7 J* S/ S5 t) t. HMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.8 j2 Z( @4 S/ ^6 J$ R g
# N& ^3 K+ a: m. k5 w) C' EThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.5 e# p1 U) h' n
% s: e% j2 W1 t“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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) U+ i# A" W- B0 XMacDonald 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.. s! X p v& m3 E
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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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