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大笔投资不赚钱
3 g7 ^+ F$ D- z! B# _8 J a. @: w7 A反而发大笔的奖金
1 s( `4 Q T. M5 _0 q2 ^被政府调查质询
4 ^! N. z7 y) f) M G这个纳税人拥有的银行& L" d# W5 ?. ~. y; J2 W3 t
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,8 D- B, E8 p2 E2 ^
却用2600万给员工发奖金
$ g- h. O- O4 _9 I& V* p而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万# W- D0 ? ]6 A" I7 m
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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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.2 g" p; D( g! g' d" x
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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.) N+ @, L b: G5 Q, O
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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.# y% ^: |1 h1 M( D/ b3 g( b7 @* j
" q3 l |7 z/ D* r; y5 b1 t" [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.) h! P8 U s; B' I
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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$ E& E& Q+ G( p% ?Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.3 o6 K" v1 I' Z- o, R
|9 G' _& A0 \) o( v9 H7 hThe 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.5 v" U2 D* R) B4 `- y
: [ c2 n& i! T) m" g/ E) p* wATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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% ]6 P6 g3 F. t8 `“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.( a* S8 ]' C8 q, i: s s
5 r5 T* c4 H! y) d* a5 ?5 z* I+ zThe 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.0 [( D3 a! Z; {& A- W/ G
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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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8 p' J; u* v- x7 d, wATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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