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& H; f! t9 ^2 Q3 a* D反而发大笔的奖金; V8 I% Y9 I3 z1 v
被政府调查质询
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( A- I6 P0 S; ?$ _07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，8 Q2 u" Q+ Z* \% {# N- a( K
却用2600万给员工发奖金% @, v9 U2 G5 F8 _; E# `
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
7 P7 g H5 K' r8 j06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.+ \3 q8 b& Q3 b o' N
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday./ b* {8 G3 c8 w+ Z# N4 ^; |
. e7 u4 h. ~) X3 x/ {( vAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.* R" p6 X$ e }- L
3 ?3 v) `" d. UDunn’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 $262 million target.4 g! E! }1 Q8 D# p9 X& z8 }$ V
- h+ m% P3 l* v: R' |5 E: `In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.# F9 q2 @2 v. t; ?, a4 ^( G3 ^
/ m' T6 o% e& b, [( C/ B& `Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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8 \% _/ `) c9 |3 R: W, DThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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+ y' [% m% k, Q! k* MThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.4 Z+ ]: Q6 Y W) n$ n" W
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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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5 }3 B& b: k4 M( g% R3 A# Y“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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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.1 m3 z* r, K! k, B# J. g
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.! }' \( m5 z2 w5 J+ c$ o
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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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