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大笔投资不赚钱8 ?) L' t* a4 J+ X: d
反而发大笔的奖金" F$ Z% e0 v- E
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却用2600万给员工发奖金1 b4 v' a) g2 l, N3 Z! f3 W1 m
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万5 F' ?. T( |# H+ j
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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- ?% f) s: M5 k5 SEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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) k% E& d- t- R0 DLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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2 X& h' C" i$ A0 G( ^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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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.5 U/ O9 v/ O: `/ b
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.* p( J5 G0 L$ b! M
* S6 Z8 S& u, X D. S+ YDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.1 H+ K2 e' l9 S4 Q) H& U
2 O3 n0 W# S7 v* o) OThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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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.6 t6 {$ l" s' r! O R$ b9 v
) Z, _! Q' m, P) Z) }1 v2 z4 HATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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6 G, {5 p3 O4 L2 g, r“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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@0 }7 ^6 x2 l1 k7 FMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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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.
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. m, q. @ o& u1 [3 \& H8 g! p/ B“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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`4 P7 i5 L( g# U, o# Z# L1 I/ \# }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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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