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大笔投资不赚钱
f+ y" v F h: |反而发大笔的奖金
$ Y: U3 a$ Y2 j被政府调查质询
6 E7 o. q0 l' H这个纳税人拥有的银行
$ c2 p: D6 y" I07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
/ i/ P5 |7 l( k. J& y却用2600万给员工发奖金
" V* X! z& s" A而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万0 U+ {- ~5 I* m
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万. P5 s$ ^! J- g' e9 g6 r
3 n5 B: h+ V' w. Q0 S, dEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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- S: e) h6 Z4 S6 \Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday./ E6 d+ h+ T z/ i
3 y' Z1 y: a7 rAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.! R N" o$ k \
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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 $262 million target. z$ B9 {# Y3 b7 B) K3 Q, {) C
& | T0 T& E8 p+ Y3 WIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.; \- M3 T0 F8 H7 R
0 w% W1 ~" Q. s( IDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.8 c( T/ u: u4 z3 `) J' a! w
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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0 K" e7 Z6 r' e- T/ sThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.* ? J x/ W9 }; m* H; K6 q( d
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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* Z0 C) Z" }9 f( r' u; t2 Z; s“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.3 r G: P) p5 N* I
' M$ x& }% q2 dMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer., h- l* K; L1 J
2 Z3 F/ g0 n; F# H# ~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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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