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阿尔伯特省库物署
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这个纳税人拥有的银行: E% V. r! K0 j3 G% z( F; N+ X- O3 t
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,2 A: A0 I+ e; \9 ?" o
却用2600万给员工发奖金
0 ?1 q0 }! H# w; _而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万5 L1 U3 m7 s( X( F. H; C8 S. K
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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2 c( N( d. h1 v9 L u1 _# AEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee., l4 f5 F4 g$ ]2 o' X( n6 O$ F
1 A9 v. ]8 \! d, ~- S% o. B {: t, 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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) ]& ]$ d% c, l3 S e% ~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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- C& ^; C* l! P& `, R0 dDunn’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 $270 million.. s& k7 F5 Q! V3 q
! S9 G6 F x+ r$ Q; X. L. FDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets., W, k* p: ~4 z
% C6 R- _* s) IThe 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.. L# U# v; L( L! s1 y
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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3 U; N$ S& ]' T" \( T$ O“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.- Y7 z9 C: e9 \6 p
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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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$ d; b h5 f, P* T“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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. ~/ a9 w9 m; D( r, m% d) M* _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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