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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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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2亿七千万4 A5 [) k" u! y' Q' H' g# s
# J+ `! J6 `1 Z- g+ Z, m! Q+ SEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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- L1 h, l% h& Z! eLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.! P' g/ @' t. ~9 O0 [
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.' _; P+ L' J5 u! a+ v/ b. P
4 @' E; }# s$ W; {2 X0 ?2 WDunn’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.8 o. J7 L U, D9 k5 Z6 Z- t9 |! y
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.9 [% m6 w# w6 k% V* x- G
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.( E5 L! S4 J# W) b/ Z$ `8 O; w
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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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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south./ m; v! [$ ~3 e. q
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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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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6 V% p" d/ ^ k' R9 OThe 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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8 u7 L- H6 l! p; C“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.1 d3 d% k! ^/ E6 f& a" s
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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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; n( M9 b* X& ~7 f( GATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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