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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱: p- Z/ H! J& C) r* R
反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
; D% {" `9 ~& @1 R$ {: G- G$ z07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
" E5 j% ]# J6 u7 m' X却用2600万给员工发奖金- F: f$ {4 C1 a, i
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万0 s A: V6 Y9 o
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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; l7 W' S2 W* V5 H0 AEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.7 T/ D) g8 T6 h# D8 m2 r$ x' E" `
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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.; i; J/ t# F# A; A6 I1 |
5 ^1 u. @$ o! a9 hAuditor 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 _1 ^( J* X9 ?
" N: e1 f- w- C# R4 FDunn’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 $262 million target.- R/ O( R0 U, p3 J# c
+ ]) @( @2 h) A4 A) o$ jIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million., B( G# d$ _6 L! i0 o) H$ N
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.1 p' u; h5 n, D5 P2 K1 ^( J
6 P, h! f0 l! w0 b; @The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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3 \8 h- u l* y6 U3 H" JThe 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; [3 v- I) A: F- `; P+ m+ Y1 s
. ]8 \) S; W% lATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.* H, n0 T3 H" I S+ O. K) z
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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.7 p3 a# ~& Z' r$ p I/ D+ W* @3 |: p/ U
; h, p, X7 }' h+ g3 q% T: rMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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( W0 ]3 _; {0 ^1 k7 W/ q5 qThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that." S: h6 l8 H1 j1 p/ _ {- G
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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9 u7 p) V1 B* m4 I0 \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.# p _' ~5 y; {1 M& r
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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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