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阿尔伯特省库物署
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! {9 k' E5 s" W+ f1 J0 ^9 }大笔投资不赚钱( p7 s1 k, d! O: p& e- a
反而发大笔的奖金, J6 C8 M' M( S; g# i% `
被政府调查质询! p8 Q7 F+ M' m1 D
这个纳税人拥有的银行
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却用2600万给员工发奖金6 ?# Z* G3 A* I6 V& }! u
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
( E. c, s, N) P" h06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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! x* K) t6 o: e4 i/ ]. xEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.8 K3 I8 y8 D# s! c
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.' r! P, P) H, s) {6 y$ K6 x' D' F' k
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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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, t4 m5 i( ^" }5 ADunn’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 $262 million target.% j1 m$ v _2 Y$ N
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.+ q) p" A ^% n) H
1 P- y0 P; a' k+ ?# \# o7 ~: o* ADunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.8 C- A$ R7 s3 g: p3 w4 i: f' ]
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.4 ?2 b, ?( d% _1 E6 ]
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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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, ^. U* w* f* u+ G# X& c! {“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.8 R$ V5 n4 G. s0 I' F, w
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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) @: Z k" c& O! ]The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.) a+ c2 |* t3 e/ H8 K* r1 |" X
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.: q- x6 Q/ e* f j/ P& W( ^% m
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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.
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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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