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反而发大笔的奖金6 _' w# F% O7 o# C- R& C, V
被政府调查质询
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2 r S1 X- x& p+ L5 H' C: B1 z4 {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. _! w6 z' H. v+ y
0 w4 m, T; P) cLiberal 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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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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; _ |8 }, o+ I* E5 Q: q2 T7 K) [6 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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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4 z7 K9 z: T, x. h2 A- @( _Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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0 G% D+ z5 W. h; }7 C/ a: IThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.8 K B* V3 Y/ E. K: V
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.& B3 \# e' X; G9 {2 m
: Q/ t; p, a' ]$ lATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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3 w" ]3 ^4 A/ q8 d“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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* U0 v9 s( {0 U% a$ b+ hThe 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.6 Q7 Y3 Q! b. d' \' H
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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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) V+ t e+ a& @. m6 J% H& ?ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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