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阿尔伯特省库物署
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# ]' q* k* {4 J( r2 {07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
5 P" `4 ]& ~) W E4 x却用2600万给员工发奖金* p+ }9 m' z, E) T2 d8 V; d
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
( X6 d6 A# v* y! y06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万2 W3 b1 Z# F4 P
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.7 s& u; a: O2 G. e
: f. X% E$ ~+ l% _$ fLiberal 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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+ ^, X" p$ U2 y1 ]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 $262 million target.2 T4 P* l$ c# c; m( N9 R* S
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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 D: b2 k* ~* G! ~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.) g) g: g7 @1 p! a# m
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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.0 Z3 ]/ Z8 |" R* |, S
( |/ C# y6 O& n4 l( dATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.1 i# h) G7 `" j
$ u9 [9 V2 ]. k+ g2 U" f3 ]4 l5 f. j“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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9 B" ?3 g( T; W# Q( ~ M7 G/ ^9 ]8 z* ZMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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; o" l1 B: ^9 E7 s" mThe 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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; n1 x& H, ?' l. }7 J* S“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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' l4 ~: `0 e3 e, n2 a0 \/ v2 c* @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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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