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ATB
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
! k/ } u! m+ ?! I4 [: s却用2600万给员工发奖金
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' }7 [) a4 _1 y% j0 }06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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) V: [; D9 c( Q: m. u" }, @Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.! E5 @- p: C* J4 _" l, b
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.+ N; [2 B" u5 n: Z7 z$ j
- c. d; `* D/ n* b; KDunn’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 $270 million.: s; G! ~2 i8 t
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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8 t7 x( [. x4 t! R8 d! r# JThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed., ^( ~, w/ P6 Y' j
& {) b9 C% t* h( rATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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8 S" N9 e1 w: ^0 Y6 f/ T$ }' j“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.# t5 A; r( D/ Q. i' I6 e
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.$ w5 P9 M7 x+ W' Z1 T
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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.! C' `, W+ {0 {6 @% {
7 @! L5 \; e* W& L8 N' A“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.4 T3 c8 |; T* U4 q$ k' W
" l J% i3 K0 Q- [+ e- cMacDonald 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.5 ^# Q1 _, J: [2 @$ ?% @
& O5 V( ^3 \# mATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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