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- U' M; a0 h u y反而发大笔的奖金
7 v. t0 P U/ U! [. c1 X& l被政府调查质询
1 k# I& N8 H/ y0 Y: E5 \这个纳税人拥有的银行6 n* D2 y8 i! Z6 J
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
. h4 o: F. S) q' h- ?却用2600万给员工发奖金
5 f) {. l- U& d- o/ ^9 B而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万# Q7 E# @ L" y; j# f7 \
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万: q3 O- H- X. t% w
' b; d% s. u6 i: R7 QEdmonton — 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.* k( N+ M+ m& T! U( A
V2 h1 n+ g% S& ?) ~1 wLiberal 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.1 h7 I# L1 S" d3 E1 {3 N7 U
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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./ v6 Z7 S3 \, r, i. P
- ^+ Q, `4 E( c2 o+ \% P, _* yDunn’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 $262 million target.8 J( {/ G% {7 k8 G& k$ d0 Q
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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$ y& M+ Z4 P" c2 v( _Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.! ?. W. a/ @. z/ ^# X$ B
+ I; T8 ]3 D ^7 l! F* J% DThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.& l+ G4 {8 g3 h0 L9 v3 ]
( q$ ]$ R9 l& E/ H2 KThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.5 L: S c4 [6 N! u: T1 n2 q& {
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.* n+ F' N" L5 j- ?% V- C, H
$ H" ~, Z! C e4 {2 R, ?$ K! y- O6 _“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.- q2 j! r( w4 C4 s0 T& K0 s9 I
{# @/ `( f, G2 N; OMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.- w2 P4 v' \8 C' t/ |
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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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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.2 q7 ~+ _2 w# u& U4 B- w
- X8 J, k+ Q h/ Z0 w! a5 E" }9 XMacDonald 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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) c; x6 E0 C6 D9 c$ }0 DATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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