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: b3 F# t# J: x: u* L) j大笔投资不赚钱7 B0 j+ ?! }, L. v, b9 ?1 p
反而发大笔的奖金7 ?; k5 H: x5 W$ k, x. G8 z: [
被政府调查质询
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却用2600万给员工发奖金
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.7 `3 i1 I, Y" @" H5 k5 `( h8 {$ B
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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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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.& w9 H7 X7 d6 J. k6 ]- \
5 I# k; p& Y y# j' vDunn’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.+ \2 M; [6 t7 J5 M" M
0 q/ B0 x0 K0 b. j8 Y+ eIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.7 A& c8 ]! Z [
% y, o+ B; Q1 N x. ]Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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; \7 q& g: ~$ c7 @4 L+ H, X8 ?7 RThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.0 F3 W. s5 v5 K) l
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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.6 U3 t; k* F1 [8 `* v! f2 Y0 F E' }6 V
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.2 d# ]3 t6 c5 _( G
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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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer./ i7 M I9 ~$ S5 M' ~$ `
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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 [( h4 {* U
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.% {9 w- @3 r% P( }4 c. i1 Z
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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.% ^) X7 o, h6 V- f8 o" I) w
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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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