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阿尔伯特省库物署
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0 d, W. ~1 Y5 x2 E4 e反而发大笔的奖金
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! | F' D2 K i1 k- Y07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
1 @+ m: _6 `$ h C却用2600万给员工发奖金
4 S9 t' g$ u' P! ?- s$ Y) j, f而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
" a9 }6 Q. u* ~06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万0 P/ g" h# M- ~/ z# ]9 d. `
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.# u- K6 h+ L! R+ C: ~, l& i
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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+ v% @# Z$ T3 b4 e: JAuditor 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." ~4 A* [/ U* L( k2 X; t, c
; y( U# e: t1 s) A5 VDunn’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; s+ w- s. Z9 L# y) m" v
$ Q, m; D1 ~/ oIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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6 k- y' n/ P# J/ e& J6 h+ }4 cDunn 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.. s: \8 @/ y8 | e4 J
* x5 T4 M' m0 MThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed./ V9 W. O4 _" N6 n
8 W. {/ J- R% ^) }9 l( BATB’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.3 ?8 ?6 A! J) \. {' b
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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: k5 a3 r* y3 }3 H2 qThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.9 |1 P8 N& D" `- \4 b. n
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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8 Q: i; ]5 ]0 f* v* i1 G1 T3 F4 e, ~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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( e H4 y' V, c; F1 ?0 |7 QATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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