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大笔投资不赚钱8 {3 |. ]- z, }7 R3 ]
反而发大笔的奖金$ X, t D: L6 {! Y9 [9 q3 W
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8 I" H* {3 O* [07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
5 G% P- S7 d0 z2 o, H2 i( T却用2600万给员工发奖金
* q/ y; a; M/ U: I而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
8 o& x5 ], g$ s+ n! e0 x/ W/ S2 A06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万2 O" b+ z% @1 g7 r' N+ E% M: x: J
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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1 d& o$ Z+ m$ m! QLiberal 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.5 Q1 g5 L/ A" @: ?' |; K1 g
, {' L3 |4 Y1 qAuditor 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 `; Q% S" V/ Q" e' ^; {- _
; Z# T- `9 G' P7 aDunn’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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' L# s/ A# `) W/ U9 p6 {In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.4 Y. y4 b( ~8 r
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.$ m/ S! e5 y0 M" f
: m3 a3 L5 F& x) x5 M4 Z. a% jThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.; l b8 h9 f5 U% q: ]4 J" [8 g
1 s2 s: j" v6 ~2 n2 s. F3 Y1 EATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south., e+ m3 o @" k V* |
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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.# V* J4 M8 _" h/ o, g' ?0 Y; X
v3 T* z) J6 F+ d$ ~( D3 oMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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3 I( w2 s. n B7 H, EThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.6 }1 d# s! r- m* q6 M1 I) C0 i: h
/ {& x' f+ N& @3 m“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.( f+ P* v9 \0 k* F
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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.% d4 c% a, f! ^
% ~& [% c: m5 J; jATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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