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大笔投资不赚钱
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却用2600万给员工发奖金
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( F& Z' G' r% a Q1 aEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.! F' a8 @- K1 D' |: R$ H7 \) e
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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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: R* ]; _7 y. hAuditor 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.; ~- X% ?) T: M0 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.
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1 \9 l; ]* P) R& t9 b( N3 H5 d4 eIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million. y& r9 x+ r; H- J" `
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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# H, d i+ Y- D* |' ~The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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% J' D. m# ^5 Y“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer. V- {5 U8 D& ?' [6 i
G7 h# e+ V% I) q5 d- W: _; zThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.$ X* d b0 w! j4 p$ W/ h
# N* h. |7 Y6 d7 a8 b) [“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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) s$ I8 e. A7 @5 e7 _ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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