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被政府调查质询
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$ _' ^* x* R3 @* p07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，4 O6 `, ]& v- O: ?5 O
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万' _" S+ o; [! ^/ Y; p$ D8 P$ A
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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.) S2 k& x9 T \5 Y, O, h
' s! @8 H% ]" f0 H% ^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.7 k6 i0 @* w; Q' F. ^
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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." E+ W/ ]& ^* I& |) y1 W, J1 f
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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 $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.( _& B n2 M# D$ C1 \0 c" C
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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., A4 J0 M3 r9 J( `' f0 f: X
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.+ g0 M) R# x" |+ E$ H1 s& g* H- f
6 o" C! g/ t* I5 G9 R# b; B“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.
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+ f" w A- b, ?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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& k1 G9 f! p; ^- w4 G“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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. j9 q& ~9 _1 W2 X9 m# f+ C3 |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.7 A9 L7 x! j8 z
- ? ^1 [+ O. F! SATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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