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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
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" s' s5 {% ~* \6 t$ m07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，" E" U$ x7 @. J: m
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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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.: X: l/ Q; J9 c7 X0 k( R* ?
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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.; Q, R6 o1 s& Q) d; R f# R
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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.: E, E0 Z" K- K& S% K
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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& q; S* [! ]9 S/ u% `" `Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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, g" `- P$ \" p8 ^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.: Q6 G- y' O1 u- @' _, d$ l: i3 x
6 ^4 p% u. u( ~! X2 q. D0 AMacDonald 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.) _( n1 S0 \9 ~3 s
) E7 Q- z4 ^) x/ y“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.- R' k4 U$ Y$ a) F; C( |
+ X( a; c) z" G8 k* ?( ]. nATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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