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大笔投资不赚钱
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
: D+ l X2 K$ Y; y却用2600万给员工发奖金
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, h: I ?" r4 }/ ` `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.
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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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" a! ]+ n1 x, ]0 M# a* K4 Q: D7 QAuditor 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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, f* ], V' c H' H5 iIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.3 l. z! ?; v+ I6 L
2 m, J9 T( f/ Q# CDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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6 H% y) o" J! oThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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6 [. N9 j3 X/ T7 A( G, rThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.; X, ~5 P; D) @1 q8 k
: \+ W0 D' Y# j" QATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.8 w! s* J g5 I6 l8 K- X
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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8 X7 ]/ K# O' `& k' r5 ~* M4 oMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.! @1 y7 }- q& y$ ^2 x8 R
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.: B) R( p# h" v8 h: J" V) L
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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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, M7 o: j3 t) W1 s1 |9 sATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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