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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
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这个纳税人拥有的银行( K3 F1 h: X* l0 U _* L( P% A# O
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
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" e/ a3 C: K: s& c1 i/ `7 |Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.; v5 L/ K/ s/ r, `
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.$ Q! |5 F9 L7 ?7 u* Q; L8 e
( D2 n1 z* |1 s3 ^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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1 v* w# P5 ?9 R( M/ K* b: C- iIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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& o. H( o/ J1 C; ]3 q; t- S# sDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.* T: G% L) ? ]4 L% m8 @
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.7 [! L9 f' S7 O+ K1 n
9 i6 I0 T; u1 Q) N y0 fATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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: P+ U9 r% H$ r) c( W, k“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.* n4 E& W8 f. y4 e8 q+ ~2 Z1 u' Q
9 Y& ^' K, m1 \( ]& b& hMacDonald 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.
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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" Z- Y2 m. D8 N" dMacDonald 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.* v) `6 g& A; A+ D
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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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