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反而发大笔的奖金+ b# I; Z! D' U$ K2 I% _0 w9 |
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这个纳税人拥有的银行6 D. h" d& M- K; k+ k- ^
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，" ^+ r3 j0 e, Q& t2 s, D* T' Q) v7 L
却用2600万给员工发奖金
6 Y4 Z& e, {, a/ @$ [2 C而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
# c9 V$ }, G/ k6 E# I0 j06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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) ~, Y, ~' F3 u* P9 Z/ JEdmonton — 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.+ A( Q8 E" K3 a
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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., Q& o, r( e4 n0 A
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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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5 B% F5 V2 j. m2 I3 K( A3 O" X, r8 V. EDunn’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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( H/ a+ _* W+ ~ nIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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, }& ^, h% B( B' B, FDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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, }' S1 c8 @) V: y: {5 h `The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south." ] m9 f: ^6 M9 E/ q) ]% O, H
! Y2 S* R% N. O0 I! L$ N“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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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9 G% K8 x3 q& b- W* \. p, }; dThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.+ x4 q, Q0 g# _- {
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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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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.! `# I; @8 I2 ?, ~5 p0 }2 K; Q3 ~
+ Z0 m6 {+ r+ R& j5 n3 D' EATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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