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阿尔伯特省库物署
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被政府调查质询
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# ~; ^: a$ b, [- x07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
8 i- B& L& n! [8 t G却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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0 k9 a v, Z+ n1 O9 C5 ]' ULiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.2 Q* A$ V7 J& K- |" U
% k* o& ?9 a3 c9 oAuditor 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 _0 N# h. Z y, _& q5 h4 _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 $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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% x T: Q# q5 s+ D& Z- sThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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! h3 d' n9 t3 f: y2 v& C7 wThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.$ v% n: i$ D. J0 K) J5 v( k
3 w+ R0 A; K9 O7 _# p2 MATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.8 f9 e7 ]& y" M, Q$ r* }" N- y+ G2 d7 d
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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.
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6 |' j6 i& Y4 M: yMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.+ D* x# ^* y" z1 C' q8 P, x
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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.+ o2 @$ A" N- U
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.: f: @8 m u2 U% \5 ?+ ?
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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.$ [+ K+ w+ ~1 J0 ]: f* T& o) ~* J
9 v D9 V; n" r3 p9 R& ]9 TATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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