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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金6 n @8 @; K6 l& Z0 O2 L
被政府调查质询
' B* ]$ E6 A3 h) F这个纳税人拥有的银行( Q7 k/ |1 @/ W
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,- H/ p q6 D3 V/ l! m
却用2600万给员工发奖金4 ?5 ^8 w8 L' i6 r/ U) Z3 \
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万( G6 g; |% s. Q0 \/ l4 ^* n
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万 I3 S$ s5 g% k/ z* e' Z0 H' m$ q
/ Y7 \5 d3 V) H1 I5 H+ YEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.. p C3 a3 h1 r7 j+ r6 G1 W8 p
1 h3 I) ~( u W: l* ?Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.% L# i: O( n" H5 i
0 R% W4 J. { X3 O7 CAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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5 s( O$ O0 e A+ ^3 n+ kDunn’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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& w9 v- x6 K* `" A; l' KIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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$ o8 t# z8 {3 R2 dDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.( v* h' _: v7 y' d
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.$ H& D8 S; Y% S
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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.8 V# [7 X& [/ ?4 h9 J
0 N! n0 W3 y* }) \ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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( U; O/ }# a# Z6 K“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.5 i& t3 ~( l) o7 W& _% W( x$ k8 B
+ I* V: }" D3 z/ }MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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' B! ~ P E/ T, U& e9 w1 SThe 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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: [2 V+ z- _1 D2 Q: ^3 @“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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l$ |1 z4 Q2 G' }( YMacDonald 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.+ y- n% O! \& c
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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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