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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱8 C: ?3 }: M9 l" F, b# a/ Q
反而发大笔的奖金
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,9 Y, A8 D; ^: m' \: Z
却用2600万给员工发奖金! j- b% I7 c! J$ X; b$ A& d( M$ b
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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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.: E- h% P6 I" z) Q: k6 X
a! S- x/ y6 V R& {) x9 R8 }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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# U6 Y3 c) m: P7 L3 O' i3 EAuditor 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.
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9 V! {: E A& K6 ^: oIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.& u, O# b; O J: W
% G; j, g; A* F ^4 n) HThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.* `/ ?' m( l& E# M* A! v4 Q* E
8 D& u& Q6 k! l5 ~0 BThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.1 P6 l# X# [! }
, [/ o1 A9 V9 r7 \' s- NATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.. \; F- E! B! y) w2 i5 J
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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0 ^4 Z; Q1 i) C- Y( @7 gThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.( K9 @3 O( `% e! w3 s. @( R3 G
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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MacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.9 x7 ?; E" L: G$ f# Q. Z
7 a& A/ Z+ e zATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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