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大笔投资不赚钱0 b0 b& L8 x; S$ f
反而发大笔的奖金8 a& l& v7 K) i' d7 J8 H. \
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6 F" ^' d& R ~* X3 p+ G) U9 b07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,4 D1 j1 A5 s( ?# O) f- \- g
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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1 L) E/ G: ?8 @1 M( g- h) w+ Q06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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2 u! s/ h/ Q& W& S$ J" a! oEdmonton — 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.' F* [; m: C S9 R, ?: F5 i: A3 d
% i/ ]- h. ^! h1 ~1 LLiberal 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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{* p7 X! r( t* j8 M/ ^6 @3 ~, ?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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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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! E; O. ?- L: e4 Y9 N1 {0 }In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.. A$ w7 r# R8 c- u
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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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# g) C e, H( ~( n, A) G* ^The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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9 L& ^4 _' e5 T* rThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.' z o6 Q! q. @* I0 ?
& A% J" p# _% |" {. zATB’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.
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% ]1 a5 [4 T2 s6 x4 F, L) k9 hMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.) i) V+ S8 B5 ?: C$ }, Q0 ^1 s
+ G8 t) P$ t- V0 L: V% P7 dThe 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.& P3 ]( Z! f+ J7 I) |7 M6 @
_6 a+ A5 ]9 F AMacDonald 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.7 @' O' ~3 a: w0 U' | c/ h; \/ G# O! C
$ U J5 w. f. ` f3 m' e0 L; f [ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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