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ATB
3 v2 }2 w- G& O- K- G! _& V, `/ R) ]大笔投资不赚钱
% D( e% S8 }6 o: U. a6 _反而发大笔的奖金
/ K6 e$ d3 [ n" S" }# w2 w8 I被政府调查质询
* [* R/ v, [* C: f! S# i$ Q: S这个纳税人拥有的银行( s" H+ p- W! A" Y# J; i2 x0 m$ h
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
& }4 R. Q( n! V却用2600万给员工发奖金
2 m% E% R& @! s6 e而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
# q8 i! m1 T" Z! B# Q06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万+ a) q$ `$ q5 `$ k% u) ?/ l" a
! p0 k4 f( \" R2 C0 D. z6 A3 vEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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z$ _0 }; E6 O# W' bLiberal 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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0 b* M1 B/ K5 d3 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.3 U9 ~ `6 c3 [ U
: w- t6 V9 j9 U% J1 S) 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.
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# W4 v* |1 r2 YIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million. L9 ?5 J. y! K4 D% j
/ t8 c, Y: Y0 n0 C% m0 q7 rDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.# R+ |" Y7 M0 L, q
+ b9 x7 e2 A) b9 k1 q) CThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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' v( @2 C# T+ c4 L3 e' D6 B. y. NATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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( v4 n$ f: `7 j+ @8 S4 QMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.+ M5 ^. u! s) d: I6 C
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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.
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4 C+ H) W6 ~0 a9 v“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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+ v2 a( p8 n$ ^7 P/ ^8 o4 JMacDonald 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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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