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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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6 _3 v3 E1 L% T! U& c7 j+ M8 cEdmonton — 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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5 h+ T+ \" k; e C2 QLiberal 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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' N/ y, z3 H6 w( o. ?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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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 G* p9 l- m6 k4 `; s3 i8 z+ a( p
4 A8 @7 {8 M9 G- Q7 p' pIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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% c' o( C9 F+ A9 n1 GDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.( b8 x% d2 I, v; O' I
& u7 b+ T9 ^+ H& J9 d9 O/ fATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south./ P/ ]* d) W8 W8 T. W
/ M( M: A4 z+ G+ y$ W+ v+ v. U) R“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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7 A* L* ~2 @# E: w0 b2 _8 UMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.; G4 D& X/ q8 w* l
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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.0 ]1 s* u2 L' P4 E8 k
6 F0 }+ n2 b( X( k% R! _, f“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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! ?2 \; x0 p; Y6 f% 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.
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" g9 y( y5 x) k% l- p! C% Z- r5 n1 A4 xATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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