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大笔投资不赚钱, T2 Q5 ` Q! d2 ?
反而发大笔的奖金3 W; X; a' g* G9 n B% Q
被政府调查质询
6 w4 K9 W5 l/ r8 {4 [这个纳税人拥有的银行
( ?& j, l2 T- V3 h$ y07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,/ ?9 |; f% }0 ]1 Y1 U
却用2600万给员工发奖金
x4 }# T/ `+ z Q5 H% s" S而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
]3 A# e8 M! K) C% n9 `06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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7 B" J+ z6 A P8 @$ n' `6 zEdmonton — 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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~* T' Y+ L% d3 b3 P2 K5 ?3 [4 kLiberal 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.
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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.
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.4 ]. g" ~: \, t: Y2 y9 B- U. i
I V+ u9 h$ MDunn 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.0 @! l3 A& V; d9 ^8 R/ h
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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.
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1 n* e' k4 T* U1 b% R1 bATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south." y5 q5 D$ D. I' e' |. V: O$ }
5 I& i& x1 c+ }0 R, I2 \( E, c, D“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.; y# p3 g) u3 r$ Z1 C& T/ n
5 m# O7 N) F* s7 h" X( }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." C0 w$ F- d& P$ [" i( o) a
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.$ O" N$ Q2 E/ u ?
, |8 U F" O, lMacDonald 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.2 z; _- x) G, N: H( N
' o$ ?/ _3 a; z ?/ v, s% |/ o$ \ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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