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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
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却用2600万给员工发奖金
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8 u2 N: Q8 n9 f; SEdmonton — 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.3 C/ M3 [- @9 T. v) O6 t: d3 G
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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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5 ]7 Q* w5 _; A) Z+ I- RAuditor 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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: a, [' S# j) k, O' n5 g% L5 zIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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5 [$ {% I m5 ]. ]+ L' ]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.
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2 W* Q2 w9 u! l5 bThe 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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2 H* ~( t, o' X) A0 J6 j+ `“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.4 }8 M4 l5 {7 Y0 Q+ J0 D6 R# y* b( K
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer., R" x6 g( V* x/ K) M/ s* Z
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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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2 @# X# j% c( \: X$ j“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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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.
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7 ^0 w" O0 s5 }/ ]ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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