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大笔投资不赚钱
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,# g( B# J# W% V. r- W' C$ \: k
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.: `, M3 v" H- v, h- ^
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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2 C6 D+ M1 h6 [$ [/ ]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.+ h/ J+ M6 A e
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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.7 f. q( H* |2 {) g# {; ?! L" H* f
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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" d+ N8 m* d0 m/ c$ q2 kDunn 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.
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The 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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) U( ]- J- T6 c3 vATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.- U4 q9 k2 ]" m
. }6 D k& ^2 {/ X: s3 o( `6 p“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.- e# p3 p( U2 S. g% s; S
) s4 W9 E( E e# F8 o N8 E6 sMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.& k4 s7 T, Z: M
+ P% u, h; ]% w6 JThe 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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' i9 ^& v. V8 D6 ?+ y4 M“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.6 Y+ n' N* s: Z& i3 t6 f
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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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