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阿尔伯特省库物署$ I; c7 Z/ o0 Q( h6 s6 r: \
ATB
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$ P1 q" s) l' k- h" L; g2 y1 E被政府调查质询2 A. M; W, M+ [
这个纳税人拥有的银行1 N0 U+ N J B# h
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，* C6 i: [5 [' B4 g- G8 g% e
却用2600万给员工发奖金
' v; \8 B8 L& g: D) j! |" z而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
, h C: l: }4 T5 L3 Y, u4 y- ~06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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0 h% N/ y2 O4 X# K, OEdmonton — 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.4 T6 y5 _8 y- L2 k# d8 _
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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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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.2 D! p2 ?7 N) q" @+ m( v
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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 $262 million target.) ^6 [, F; {$ z. J
: K( n# [, P' d+ D1 ?In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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5 N9 l* \7 w& IDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.$ | ^% w& E0 ^& R( s8 g
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.2 S6 V$ o$ D: G' w
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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 o! m: Y1 B0 \- I9 ^1 ?
- D' L% b' ^! M/ I- \" sATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.7 m8 }5 T+ [& S0 L, r6 h
- z! g- q$ V0 w+ z4 d“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.. X3 m( |5 N# Y6 |, ^8 p
4 O4 X( C4 N9 v5 FMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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* y9 Y( b. E9 l: _$ J nMacDonald 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.* l7 p; k' ~) m0 p
* w7 y+ I# P. MATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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