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阿尔伯特省库物署
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1 T+ W3 C3 l- Y& M, [: r大笔投资不赚钱' y5 I! b) B% r; { t, E2 @
反而发大笔的奖金
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# h+ h" u: u3 h# O0 g07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
2 K3 s2 R, z2 e* ^, B1 X/ z却用2600万给员工发奖金# [ W" L# D2 E4 L; H
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万, f; ~) S( f$ v( V& m
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万- D& N. Q2 F0 m* L7 Z7 a( d# X
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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. A" G- Q* w# z3 S: g6 o; ]1 @; i! 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.
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5 y- Q4 y0 t* u/ T% FAuditor 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.# H, x2 n5 w0 K! L
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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 $262 million target.
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7 W' I$ _& w/ t/ fIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.. Q( l5 \3 {7 n# D% z7 h; D
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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% i# n6 T1 q( c# @" AThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.8 x, U; Y- w2 j5 j3 _5 b
7 O0 n' [& r* T( W! dThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.2 f h$ c+ u+ K" J( ]/ l# k
% O9 ]: `$ S# K# E" TATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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* x' y* Q: {7 S- [$ @“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.$ `/ a& I) R( F/ {7 J0 O6 m
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.: Y8 n9 W q$ s, ?( f9 c& j
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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.- D H& @. P, r
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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.) B8 V% N5 i5 N: S6 b6 i5 Y
1 g7 I% _1 S; r" `# h5 h- ?ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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