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阿尔伯特省库物署
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被政府调查质询
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$ f" H) u3 q* \# z$ |8 B07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,' U; y1 f9 L. R& i
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万, Q- U; K2 u g$ n* D1 g6 \
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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./ M3 K5 u+ F. @' P) C
1 @& Q, @& p7 d- ?* g7 dLiberal 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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+ q4 s! N, G3 uDunn’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 $262 million target.! C7 Y9 @' b y! P. |
, r) K& Z$ c* m; M2 z% I+ T- A' |* ^; @In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.; ]8 R* ~0 g& v4 v+ W! @; Q
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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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9 c' J+ w( m, x `1 s) w1 J' VThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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) ^; T- p+ z* i- c6 ^+ LThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.# G0 `3 d% k; ]. H& _% @
$ K/ L2 P; m0 B2 u% R. v: {ATB’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.
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8 u: t" w. s8 R4 sMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.2 w' t4 |" \6 ]- k+ b5 W
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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.$ l* j' m, ^- C
* W: y7 Z8 G [“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.! v+ a: B2 V N0 C) {- b
9 _1 d& J3 q( b0 L* m" ~5 X% `ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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