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反而发大笔的奖金
6 U" a. E0 l. Q: h6 f被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,4 z& U1 w. i* z, l8 c
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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$ ]8 z$ ]2 y( _8 g% g; F' @; m0 DEdmonton — 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.0 } U& i9 ]; e1 Y
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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.
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! ?7 X' A* E! [5 J% B# s5 h% ~' jDunn’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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million." n% K( v* n4 F9 ]4 p' [' M
4 g9 v' q* ?6 o% x: cDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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6 \4 I7 u3 d/ s& KThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.1 [& P' w6 _$ L
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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.1 [/ y) Q+ r% U+ j4 [
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.8 H) `5 Q j- e7 U' k- u5 V) p+ ^
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.5 M! M& F! s- r" Q1 X
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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.% E: T. ?/ O. D/ C; Y0 w" W' r) A
+ e& N# a$ a/ h5 LMacDonald 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.5 y7 [" W7 G" F5 h2 q u) U
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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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