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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询; s, _2 O5 x, f7 R9 W, ^/ ~1 q
这个纳税人拥有的银行
, ^. ~/ L' w' D: ?% p07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,! y! t& K- B: O' F) U* w, I8 c
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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8 X& u" G1 }5 }- v6 b, JEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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& k7 c% w7 ~0 A) f. A2 e# EAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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0 G p9 l$ L. z! S! {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.6 ?9 {! {9 q' _& `5 x: V, \; E! _( W
- ^9 m: t% _5 n+ F, a6 K }In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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- s6 C1 u6 W) j, ?2 l( }Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.4 ]1 M( n* ~1 n7 C% i0 ]
; M; Z) x. B# t: s bThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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+ w8 f, K- T2 ?" c6 H* |ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.1 F7 z; n) ^2 x) E/ f
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote., d" K" L- p& y' r& z- _
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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+ H% }2 Y- ^1 m7 [The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.* ^3 C1 l' G2 v- N
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.# [5 r) j6 {$ T8 j' B
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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. X3 y: U# W6 {4 s- i
6 y' F# A4 H1 @0 H" \( xATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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