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反而发大笔的奖金
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5 s! s, s( {! Z* A$ W" L07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.1 ]* ^2 s2 S, _5 C2 U; J6 o( ]
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.5 _2 @+ K# @6 d) k6 r* K+ ?$ `
; T' u& \7 k' l) KAuditor 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.
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.+ Z5 [( D% I" g' B3 F
4 P$ R& V0 l# kDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.; M& Z5 j( |: g5 y9 }
9 _1 k0 z6 o8 X2 q+ o1 XThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.+ L# |" o# w' Z( ]
5 ?. X2 y. W9 U4 m: ~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.$ `, T6 M3 e, ?# c
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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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. N6 U' Q) G( _9 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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer. \9 A$ J3 M" I0 Z5 G
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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.6 y& v/ U% m7 q$ { V' g$ [4 [
5 B( s4 n$ y8 g# [* U# J9 d+ E“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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v! D: N$ ^, E- {4 V7 F' MMacDonald 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.7 S* [# i+ ~5 g6 t
# G% }6 u6 W9 R, g, uATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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