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大笔投资不赚钱7 a! |3 p; \& e2 `7 m
反而发大笔的奖金! | N# g) O# Q, I& N& A" I$ q
被政府调查质询% Y2 |6 I! B8 S$ R
这个纳税人拥有的银行7 @) D; W" g u
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,9 p7 J4 N. v0 `( U, [0 ?
却用2600万给员工发奖金3 Z- r% P3 j# L5 X
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 $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.% z7 ~0 X2 P+ Q$ M! @! i% s, k
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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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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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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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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4 n) A6 Q5 l& |; z# Z9 GDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.8 J: H3 L ^/ m' A# s; O5 P7 ~5 I
+ t# `! u& ]9 p- MThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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/ B" h; e2 Z( b% O( D% |The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed. e2 e9 m9 T0 K' N+ j5 q* D) j# l
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.) ?; v0 y! v7 [; i$ A: O
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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.9 i4 s" J+ H! v) D D
# i7 c' a) f" D4 V, `, A/ C& _MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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# H8 l& H6 j+ R8 {1 rThe 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.- z; z/ S! O' I% Y
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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.; ~5 U+ C f6 l
% U$ @( E( l1 aATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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