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大笔投资不赚钱1 V3 R2 O: a: r8 p# E
反而发大笔的奖金 W& Y P7 B! [+ s( k5 `
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
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& J2 e( G$ y& P( a/ s- r却用2600万给员工发奖金
K! Y3 }2 h9 m1 I% Z) B& ?! K而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万 [+ K$ o* P6 h0 \( g* F1 o( w. b$ G; B
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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# h( g0 C5 t, X/ iEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.2 g9 _6 A2 s1 P6 H$ ~
' \8 L7 @5 Y) V( \+ p1 iLiberal 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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3 i0 V' C2 H1 FAuditor 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.& _& ^6 _8 ~" P7 A
8 Z( v1 m. R1 i. zDunn’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.; k% h1 f0 m% ~1 o1 d
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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, `) A& h6 g# J: b; oDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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5 j7 D* L% J" _4 {: ~3 t: gThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.( K& N/ `; a5 ? O
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that., K5 B! [* T( D
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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8 @# Q3 w6 c6 A' G6 ~+ e) G5 W KMacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.# M3 A# b5 t: y8 [+ L# f" V$ q
- {! W( R/ Y1 KATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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