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ATB
3 D1 m: t" g/ P% r/ t Z大笔投资不赚钱9 R @$ X$ g6 O6 H, z
反而发大笔的奖金" }$ h) F& L- n5 w, u
被政府调查质询$ v1 v3 W, L4 w$ k/ D1 W* M) l2 Z
这个纳税人拥有的银行" _/ D: x% T' N/ l4 I0 H
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
, t" K. a4 \7 m# [0 M0 h1 J却用2600万给员工发奖金6 ~( a$ N' h) W% ~
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
" ?( m- u# M, A06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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+ D- X* i1 @+ dEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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" w# o- y" R1 Y; o0 {Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.- b x8 }- C% u& F% j% n$ Q0 K7 H/ P
6 X, C/ i7 J9 r% p g. x) ^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.) V& s, V; E7 a5 D0 A; O, s
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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 $262 million target.
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8 L$ } a1 Y+ o, sIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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- R+ o+ G+ Q7 U/ wDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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( Q9 \8 l$ c5 o$ K$ ZThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.0 G) r( ^: C a2 I) I7 C4 U
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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." n) K' O" u3 D* A% `6 W& a% b6 J
0 R7 ^3 @% R7 R! g) ]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.
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& j( r, B% R5 W F8 C. m: a0 ZMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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3 q) v9 M6 e; |( `5 F8 SThe 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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7 c* N* O! Y, _* a6 X“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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H" r& @4 h' EMacDonald 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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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