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! v3 B( h6 l) @. k7 }8 S' m07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,: N; _3 D9 i( v- \8 i/ K
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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0 [' ?- N. ^. q* o8 N) R06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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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.
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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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a9 I) d3 r' ^( @& e ~ n1 HDunn’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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2 [6 A9 ^" H; {3 E0 NIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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- @0 X; J8 X5 y" \( Q- HDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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2 h: B: c% @7 T% k/ x/ N2 q, VThe 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., V. U1 b0 M% H+ C
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south. t% |- N5 \5 a" s; F: w& u
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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.$ j; Z7 W7 ]9 o$ x$ D/ C# q
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.0 x' c$ ]% X# u- ~4 b
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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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9 q. U9 s1 Q9 h# i" E2 UMacDonald 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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( E0 f" l* ^5 l8 k, L. pATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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