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大笔投资不赚钱7 T7 L( @# f; d
反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
; u4 e0 |' o( s; z# K2 b( a( }07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
|; e" a1 }) y" c- [# d# D1 g却用2600万给员工发奖金
- E5 _+ j- z5 y9 B: D而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
6 O) [# S5 n+ s$ i8 e06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.# p e0 Y9 h. V3 x5 V# }- a6 Q
+ i5 W9 p- J$ S# ^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.' Q4 \0 v7 t' F/ p+ _( h- M7 j8 G! N; @
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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6 z1 ?5 a1 I. r( C7 i2 MDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.7 B. I! a* |1 ^( [- H# x
$ A9 _- y+ Z# Q# ^- EThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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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.2 a1 M5 \; M$ ^/ |4 p3 [; z
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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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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.; K) c N; o$ g' \0 t0 [0 x6 z8 ^
8 |% r8 D; u1 T$ k8 _MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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' y$ I/ @- d* H! x. XThe 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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3 I7 z: t; k' r0 X% q“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said. L% [8 |: U( r5 [- P/ u
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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. A3 d0 [" ^: y8 h
6 h+ @. R8 g: r$ T* _9 EATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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