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阿尔伯特省库物署1 ~8 X# F) c* o3 U0 Y" H5 E
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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,7 [* E' Z9 ^. o4 f. ]
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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! E- s7 {5 q9 T' K06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万9 O& H9 e5 ^" C9 x _- D) c! ^% N( h
/ _( H' J) l7 ?: G8 g! j) c% {Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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9 L1 A- a3 N$ Z+ A' S5 XLiberal 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.4 G- a; N ?% ?8 u; _
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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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4 p! I5 h1 ^' K+ zDunn’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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# w1 D* g8 m0 {& w2 F) ^& f4 r7 rIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.' g3 W0 x" r3 E& c
6 }% D$ B' ^+ R: G5 [Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.5 h4 A' j7 o0 }0 Z- o
& `2 y8 t7 z2 \2 R( T( U' mThe 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.# F7 T/ l! f2 r
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ATB’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./ t# C$ u+ A" K; l, L1 f: {' J
3 r. F! w2 n' z$ x0 ?3 j0 mMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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4 ~: X+ E: }& {8 u$ O* o0 cThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.* R2 }1 H5 F" P; u$ t0 v& d y0 \: p" j
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.. n9 C' a! O% I2 c
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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.
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& \ }9 n7 D7 x( w2 l6 t2 [' tATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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