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阿尔伯特省库物署
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反而发大笔的奖金
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! u4 ]4 l" r0 V) ~这个纳税人拥有的银行
$ R: e1 ~" L$ d07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
6 C. i4 x( e' |1 S/ R$ y却用2600万给员工发奖金4 _# j. K3 C, m$ r8 N; _% w
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
# q0 t, u# t# d( O06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万6 F! ` ^! |# x5 ^# H, `0 L
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.8 u6 {1 k" ], o( U
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday." ]9 e/ `& L1 d) s' V
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.. y$ C) Q& U* w: u/ F: Q! D
* G; F; {9 R& b8 `! y, z8 Q$ 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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.4 I) w1 H4 k* q( @1 a4 e. h" X
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.% v! {. d# V2 d6 e
4 t c9 y9 p7 h% H% rThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.5 t* q5 n7 n$ \% h# \
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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." `8 O) l& p' V
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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.% o8 N/ K0 }! E) o7 X
: ?. u7 ~7 Q; P0 L+ ]# E' l2 J! {! {/ nMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The 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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" V; v- a0 v9 _; B, ?, o2 p# r“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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; P$ O8 \+ [6 XMacDonald 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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