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大笔投资不赚钱
& v. ]: ?& N5 ^. v反而发大笔的奖金
0 D5 l, n+ J8 r8 R. |被政府调查质询& A& c( ~4 o1 @( }
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! h& _- w2 `; t07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，7 z6 i3 N. k, ?& x
却用2600万给员工发奖金0 f$ u5 R2 B+ N4 j+ [4 h4 L4 ]* b
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万% S7 o7 f2 k$ ?+ d: X8 ~
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万" e0 ?% V3 Y- K) u
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.( x3 x* H# p# G; w
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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6 _+ x! q/ c- C$ ]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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( r. e3 c9 e" ^: I6 g* o9 XIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.6 a9 t- \# u% Q$ D& S* C
. _6 g2 b. D/ QDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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2 l/ l# h$ l$ t. ^5 |The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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: x% `0 n0 u' ^+ m6 s( j4 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.5 h4 G: p. y0 l3 c$ @. F( x
# T: p. |6 h: n6 gATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.$ a7 f5 n5 v2 U% ^
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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.0 K! e! k# h( L
$ g2 t5 s1 V3 T* S# wMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.7 {4 V$ `- G# x/ d! ]; T/ g
% D! {$ V! l ?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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.& \ G3 d f# O* n' K
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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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$ r0 {) r9 l& ]; kATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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