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反而发大笔的奖金
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，# K u* ?* r8 t: [6 Z) R
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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/ e, {1 M/ X. s0 I( eEdmonton — 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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6 b9 i9 x% w5 t( C! @* MLiberal 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.8 }" o! X3 \$ y3 F: {. 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.) \: q; \. b% r
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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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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets./ }# f2 ? U7 U4 e4 Q
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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.
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: F3 N8 i% N# ~2 |3 i. aATB’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.0 d0 i' W4 o9 Q8 m c: M- Y
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer. [4 p' s. u* W/ d" s
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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.) c& P; m2 q+ l; b" e
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.6 H2 K- W+ G& G
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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.
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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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