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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
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7 r$ Q7 H4 |# A3 ?却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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# r8 k) M2 R! R8 l4 Z0 L. ]3 D1 KEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.$ ~9 O8 t' a @; D
" H, D( j, X/ y9 b4 uLiberal 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.) ~) ^0 \) Z) S- p! r% O5 c/ [
% C+ p. s9 s4 Z5 `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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! t5 O# c# Y3 q- I) HDunn’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.2 o4 ?( P3 [- s# v
* A7 d9 }* p: X8 C/ G3 u- dIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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8 v, ]- T4 `5 a% y( A8 \The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake. U( u! M# s3 J" Z
) W2 R$ U+ i: W% c+ K) j2 EThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.! u2 I- M Y: E6 T+ d
1 ], _- g2 g9 H H/ zATB’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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H, Z5 X, ^& \* aMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.3 F+ {* B E4 Q& {& x4 Q4 S5 Y
* T2 u) i2 C' `* g8 NThe 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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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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# h, v* S+ \' F5 @3 p! Y* e; ?1 bATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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