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大笔投资不赚钱* d- o3 d" Q# N& e. q
反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行; D$ c6 ~1 y5 o2 z
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
: \& z# Y7 Z3 S0 n! ?1 n却用2600万给员工发奖金1 q( K q* L8 |
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
& J/ D1 J3 P+ \1 R06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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0 l& y1 ?0 B! P3 lEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.% v$ I( S$ a3 i
4 v0 {# Y% k7 P) b1 vLiberal 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.3 n3 H8 p0 r7 X" P% R+ h& h
. L6 k& C* P, H6 z1 D: `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.# a* E9 R4 Y d% A4 b8 b5 D, N0 |
/ _2 t$ s l/ V! v' B' k, ^ @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.* ~% D5 X e `0 }5 Q
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million., ~0 y# _, F! `7 A( e/ p
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.( d% z3 a" p# @
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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; x/ J9 Y( ^$ z% p; e* n7 DThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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5 T/ R6 o5 q8 s" UATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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& B: o$ A i3 c b“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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; W- h. `9 L+ h; g% oMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.9 U2 v; U( d2 M% Q
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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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said., y2 d+ f( A1 j" @8 B1 [
1 W& v" o) W$ w* g4 ^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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5 {+ B( |6 g* q# tATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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