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反而发大笔的奖金, G* v) w) N, \5 K1 }# v) X
被政府调查质询
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( w" M4 g' M, D6 m- D6 T1 ]07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，! m. A; q6 ^( n% P& ]
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 $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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5 d; `$ w) x4 j, f8 Y7 YLiberal 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.6 H# [# d' n7 n
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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.% \( P' n1 z9 q" l8 @* X
2 B6 m! z1 j% q( r( JDunn’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 $262 million target.
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* E( ^/ y: Z; ~) m/ U$ ]0 |8 jIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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. h& L- H9 B* a' b) g7 p4 D+ ~6 `5 rDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.1 D& i/ j% Z4 V. b4 E, h
0 v6 V6 O" T& b* a2 N- FThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.; [" \* G: M8 u9 R9 K% i/ x9 {1 o
1 q% t1 ?, z, y. P0 ?1 y: y“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.( M* U; M* j Q; d
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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' H+ I& X9 N0 mMacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.$ s: I0 S+ o: S, f% k9 s
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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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