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阿尔伯特省库物署0 v9 y+ `/ f5 Z; k$ @* o! M
ATB
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7 Z6 y8 X+ L$ e, z+ y8 u9 G4 X反而发大笔的奖金% X% h- j! o2 J9 r
被政府调查质询9 G9 O. k% m# h: ^
这个纳税人拥有的银行/ C5 T; i9 Q* L, P8 Y" @& g
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,9 |8 \: g, l" M
却用2600万给员工发奖金; ]& ?% t: s" P
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
+ A2 ]$ Y5 n. q3 H5 K5 \: t; b4 i; I06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万1 {+ ]3 s9 j! |# j
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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.9 h, C1 z. d/ ?! G0 w6 P+ {8 ^
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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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+ g) w7 j/ ?. 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 $262 million target.
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) F% y4 e, X$ L& EIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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" I* s8 X8 G' R- I' f; v7 x ODunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.3 K M1 Y" W" p. q; _) w2 E7 a
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.. c( T$ z B) T
) K4 G s& _. r. q& U# D* sThe 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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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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' z( J+ I2 i6 X' p* Q% o& y“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.1 [+ T' a5 r5 Z! E6 t$ {. d
: W& I: s. b; ], U' B. r* SMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.1 c: @7 d1 a H8 H3 G$ {; _9 O% m
# j" a( L+ v* \+ ?$ D+ a: {) {The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.6 o4 `" V. a' ]6 J
$ h8 T" f$ c6 g; ]5 R( L! G: j“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.! M5 {8 `3 R) g- h+ i& v
; B; g2 \6 n2 [) d; j0 g% d1 X# V* H/ nMacDonald 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., ~* D) D+ A% E7 Z6 t
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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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