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阿尔伯特省库物署
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被政府调查质询
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2 |& u! {$ f# I$ |07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万," E$ W; Q" ^' k9 u) E8 O/ b
却用2600万给员工发奖金& J& ~# a; M( a4 Q
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万2 f( C% k; P5 U0 J; [
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万8 G! ?8 ~) h- p3 U3 C% `7 o
* v( B# e. k3 hEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.$ w4 W3 I J) ` c# @$ p
4 i ?9 Y: {' |/ o7 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.' R h5 i! c* t; @- e# N
1 W7 {+ j! n W3 n5 G2 zIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.: c1 Q3 c8 u* Z# i
* L' R1 T' w1 s3 RDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.# c8 ~2 I+ g8 K+ z m- x3 q5 V
$ B+ h$ r# x' Q* \: \The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.- I1 b* R& e: L3 _
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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. d! w0 }) G! i$ h0 g
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.- k F9 _4 i$ p a' O. A( u, b
6 O% Z+ }6 a6 J8 |- }# T“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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; J- Y7 |0 i* G) r5 H; K( rMacDonald 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.
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* V4 L& n2 h) K. j o“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.. u: K, v! T% h0 c; f; A; R
$ e2 y2 v5 R$ q& d9 |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.& z2 }: T, ?0 s- V+ l
/ s/ K3 [6 F9 t& mATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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