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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金3 y* X/ U. ? L5 _$ `1 E! p
被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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. B D& X- P* v$ B F$ Z* T% {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." \) f9 `' s! D
' t/ a' g; H: h( K' cLiberal 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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: I# @; { e vAuditor 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.# @' W4 u# z9 E" @5 n
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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 $262 million target.: }4 {$ `& E& r2 G/ V! j( O( W
; o. L0 I7 I. w' b( [In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.9 o( C; s% F# n, E. |
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.' C' g, V+ s" U" Q" {( T$ r! B) [
' Z, Y$ O9 ?% ]# C; ~6 @9 EThe 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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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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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.$ ?, W* X, _* r8 h P9 ]7 _! G. {) J
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MacDonald 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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7 q5 {# r, M' S# T! \9 ^; \8 k“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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1 H6 F: U- \1 Y' M5 d" |' yMacDonald 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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