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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询2 b* h1 C- a1 } H' i) Q1 N( P) \
这个纳税人拥有的银行
( r, ^: K* s7 L6 F4 o3 [' B07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，, A( L0 L* @: S( e+ o9 s2 Y
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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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.: Y' d1 M5 T5 |: Q" S
! W. D3 p! t" q9 JLiberal 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.: ^* L, A) L, ]- i5 s
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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 $262 million target.
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# F% J" B* j$ m; _; ]; P0 `In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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9 ^3 w2 H3 Q0 ?" BDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.$ r3 w y* a% L# C( k9 l
P" Y& }* ?2 T+ a6 h+ D0 ~1 HThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.& `' D) {9 U' t# u6 G P$ L; W
4 s' c1 H0 y" ] l! uATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“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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% f- F9 c/ ]+ F0 ]! oMacDonald 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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, X( E5 i+ ^3 w2 {9 i' q“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.) W3 r! a/ m) `' {: A8 h: v
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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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