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反而发大笔的奖金
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0 H8 k- Y! \+ A& M' m/ ^07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，& c g e( Q8 \2 k1 }" Y$ X
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万8 b/ k" @! ?* r9 ?7 b/ Z$ S
) q! v; P6 r, `2 [% l/ g" yEdmonton — 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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, s! M2 i* l* Z# u; k; {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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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.7 w. {+ c0 Z: n2 j* g5 M
! i! n( u) |5 XIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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1 ~$ K/ _6 C. A+ t( i/ t* ~, mDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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W9 D* M8 o) k3 F- |- D8 \# zThe 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.5 A- \9 j- i/ D* b+ F4 Q
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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.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.' X: {- V9 y {/ ~! w
) I& G! O- X# yThe 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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( k2 [% ]$ d/ R- K, z: f“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.: L1 {& H% Q# v. B
8 ?! r. v U% O7 a7 t9 o: NMacDonald 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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* _8 h# Z1 W4 q% n% q Z& sATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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