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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱* J! i8 U9 H7 D" m- A
反而发大笔的奖金
6 ~8 e) e4 w4 u9 N4 N% P9 y/ c9 U被政府调查质询
/ [% E& }8 B+ N7 f- B这个纳税人拥有的银行
* h7 ]" y3 D5 N' z4 X: Q- `! Z07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,3 L# \5 J% D- [
却用2600万给员工发奖金- o( P# }" A* V$ ~( d
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
: O% A: t9 f. `& N! V- ?06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万# U$ Q) ^* O" ~, i4 W$ G
4 J- e9 _' _+ ^$ ?4 hEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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9 n" v! k. Q# L4 |# W2 C$ E) eLiberal 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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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. J7 ]# H7 @- U0 d
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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 $262 million target.: f) }7 O) D. h. }$ Y. G" s$ p$ ?
" Q9 e8 X0 ^5 U: xIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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2 O0 G: h3 ?# d5 LDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.7 ]8 {' ^* Q! `/ n& R
0 X' J; W9 f3 ]6 hThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.0 |' ]% i; E5 ^" ~0 J9 e7 n& m
# x \. O& j5 U4 D3 z DATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.+ E- H* d4 E( C4 E6 }! }
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.% F' m/ k5 p4 X$ V: h* B
% B; Q, D2 E1 d/ o1 Y' l r* a$ PThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that." Y0 k: y! ^( a# @. R8 q! u
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.! p4 U, K; v; a' G( E( }
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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./ r7 {3 T" n' J' Q
9 E$ u* r* C- p, T5 O6 HATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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