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( h; D. P( r* B9 d0 ]被政府调查质询
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9 ~# O8 |: R' M7 G6 |07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
* X( H+ ]9 Q$ s2 _却用2600万给员工发奖金% |) q8 D9 I' S9 k
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
^# m2 a; k! c7 C$ O9 Z06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万6 ]* j2 J+ G3 T+ M! a3 B# ^) o
* H0 x% Q7 ~2 J0 W, ?' kEdmonton — 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.( l, L; e3 B4 i) N x9 w8 u5 ?
* n' d4 ?8 ^- @0 ZLiberal 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.- x# y7 ?( A# j
! I" y" @7 Q* R' K; _4 m# ]1 nAuditor 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.9 X B- A% H5 u
4 C+ m" O% F" s+ H7 G9 QDunn’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 f# G6 s. V4 aIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.$ q J: B! g' H1 A
% B- c+ o! o4 X! r0 j; {& JThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.7 A. k9 {, _$ Y' G9 T5 G$ N0 o
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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." k% E |" G) ~# |: T$ [: m4 z
# x' m& R& u: hATB’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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# \1 P5 y- u& qMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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! a# Z$ A- W; ^' X+ ~8 GThe 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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said./ c' X# D1 T6 [, r# p
& m7 I0 ~! E1 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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