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ATB
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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.. I2 Y& T6 Z+ o+ W2 y/ m6 W0 Q! n
( K3 s# Z! B6 \; S! ^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.
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" o: _6 H9 W; {( FDunn’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 n& Z' F1 s7 z/ `4 TIn 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.8 L% N, N- a* |; J
( E% p) q/ p( z: Y9 ZThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake., h; T! [4 X1 h: W
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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.
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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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2 j) e; Z+ `# o' S# ^5 |“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote., N' ^- n9 v9 O) h2 X+ X& E
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MacDonald 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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) R- v0 R1 E3 `6 t! S" B1 lMacDonald 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.% G/ A, `7 z5 R" k( Q
; v+ L& I8 c% m8 g( CATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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