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反而发大笔的奖金: I5 J% A4 l/ j2 \' V- M
被政府调查质询
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1 e# t; E7 `2 R/ Q; h3 I$ U! ~07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万6 b: s( P2 J+ C$ t
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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5 L9 R) H0 _2 E% z; HEdmonton — 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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H4 E# @( E3 D' Q" _' FLiberal 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.. Y2 p: S, A P1 v9 g
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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.( Z. n. K/ U" [/ O( d6 U! B
* A Z5 |# W' N& EDunn’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.& j. e% e# q. N2 |6 }
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.) Q7 H7 V6 |; w2 _+ Z% x5 M7 a6 Z. p# Z
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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, v8 `3 W8 a: ~' ]% w0 u, [The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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' Y6 `' k! `# C. N+ ?& wThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.0 m- y3 k; Z- l3 o4 V7 L% t
8 @$ ]" v8 Y$ ?& z“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.' Q/ L) t1 L0 }) `0 m: W5 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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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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5 A% m6 r$ w" Y5 `4 z- yATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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