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ATB
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6 f8 z* @6 a/ N! A! @反而发大笔的奖金. v- L# F1 y6 b; E& i1 D
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，+ E% u; j- z' l
却用2600万给员工发奖金
# k; b7 g' R% E* y$ G( S而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万( c w4 [/ V0 p+ p3 w8 ~0 Z
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万% ^( [" }4 {, t" s [7 V6 F% u" A
5 p9 ]* g' u. `8 Z! oEdmonton — 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( o) W! W* {
4 X) s- R2 V3 _+ RLiberal 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.# ?0 g" R) q* L% `1 O) r) z
' Z6 K& S/ U# ?% f+ MAuditor 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.8 D Q3 G7 s" i! [0 ^
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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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3 r, N. t4 {7 v8 G! n" Z# bIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.- y( f7 h+ |$ x$ H$ g! ?
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.6 A2 m, c( n8 R! r
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The 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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" ~! |8 o3 W3 `* AATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.* T4 u5 p+ S" m
* `0 Y* V6 B) _“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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. k* O4 L3 S) x0 uThe 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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. f, ~8 i- F3 Y, q“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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( }) H: ^" J7 iMacDonald 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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[) f# W( u9 W& `3 l4 n: G, \ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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