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'''Kelly Services''' is a temporary staffing company, based in the U.S., with operations in over 30 countries. Besides According to the company, besides temporary staffing, it also offers full-time placement and outsourcing services. It started in 1946 offering only female clerical help but has expanded to include light industrial, technical, and professional employees of both sexes. It places information technology people, engineers, accountants, lawyers, scientists, substitute teachers, and medical staff. In 2006, it had revenues of US$5.6 billion and profits of US$63 million. Terence Adderley, the chairman of Kelly Services, controls more than 90% of the company.<ref>[http://www.hoovers.com/kelly-services/--ID__13891--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml Kelly Services Profile], ''Hoovers'', accessed October 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.kellyservices.com/web/global/services/en/pages/about_us.html About page], Kelly Services, accessed October 2007.</ref>

In 20112014, Kelly Services reported $5,551,000,000 .6 billion in total revenues.<ref>Kelly Services, [http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/KELYA/2305210288x0x5588060x0x818734/EFB218B858573124-A4B76CC3-4F6E478B-84848626-AFD9047737FC1648B63CD1AE/2011_Annual_Report_w_Form_10K_KLYAKLYA_2014_Annual_Report_w_Form_10K.pdf/ "Kelly Services: 2011 PDF 2014 Annual Report''], March 2012SEC filing, FY 2014.</ref>

__TOC__ ==LobbyingTemp Agencies Skirt Union Opposition by Branding as "Women's Work"==The company spent $40[[File:Kelly_Services_Never_Never_Girl.png|thumb|400px|right|Kelly Services "Never Never Girl" ad. Source: [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/717839-kelly-services-never-never-girl-ad-from-1971.html ''ProPublica'']]]Being founded at a time when labor unions were at their most influential,000 for temp agencies like [[lobbyingAdecco|Adecco's]] pre-merger predecessors and Kelly Services avoided union opposition by strategically presenting temporary work as "women's work" in advertising, which suggested that temps were housewives working for extra spending money, according to Erin Hatton, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the first half State University of 2007New York, Buffalo, writing for the ''New York Times''. All <ref name="hatton"/> With the help of these gender stereotypes, temp agencies established "a new sector of low-wage, unreliable work" that was exempt from many of the protections won by labor unions in other parts of it went the economy.<ref name="hatton"/> By the early 1970s, temp agencies were promoting what they called "a lean and mean approach to business that considered workers to be burdensome costs that should be minimized," with the help of ads like one by Kelly Services advertising "The Never-Never Girl," who "Never takes a vacation or holiday. Never asks for a raise. Never costs you a dime for slack time. (When the workload drops, you drop her.) Never has a cold, slipped disc or loose tooth. (Not on your time anyway!)"<ref name="hatton">Erin Hatton, "[[lobbying firm]] [[Publicworks]http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/the-rise-of-the-permanent-temp-economy/ The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy]," ''The New York Times'', January 26, 2013.</ref><ref>Kelly Services, "[httphttps://www.opensecretsdocumentcloud.org/lobbyistsdocuments/clientsum717839-kelly-services-never-never-girl-ad-from-1971.asp?year=2007&txtname=Kelly+Services Kelly Services lobbying expenseshtml The Never-Never Girl]," advertisement, 1971, archived on Document Could by Krista Kjellman Schmidt, ''Open SecretsProPublica'', accessed October 2007April 13, 2015.</ref> ==Ties to Pete Peterson's "Fix the Debt"== The [[Portal:Fix the Debt|Campaign to Fix the Debt]] is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire [[Pete Peterson]] to slash earned benefit programs such as [[Social Security]] and [[Medicare]] under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem."

 ===Executive Vice PresidentsLeadership=== As of February 2013June 2015:<ref name="leaders">Kelly Services, [http://www.kellyservices.com/Global/About-Us/Kelly-Leadership/ "Our Leadership"], ''Kelly Services'', Accessed February 4organizational website, 2013accessed June 2015.</ref>* Carl T. Camden, President and CEO* George S. Corona: , Chief Operating Officer* Patricia Little: Chief Financial Officer* Michael S. Webster: Global Solutions and General Manager, Americas ===Senior Vice Presidents===As of February 2013<ref name="leaders"></ref>* Leif Agneus: Senior Vice President, EMEA and APAC * Steve S. Armstrong: , General Manager, US Operation * Pamela MU.S. Berlich: Direct Hire Practices Operations* James H. Bradley: Project Practices, Outsourcing and Consulting Group* Teresa S. Carroll: , Centers of Excellence and General Manager, Outsourcing & Consulting Group * Michael E. Debs: Controller and Chief Accounting Officer* Joseph Drouin: Myke Hawkins, Global Service and Chief Information Officer* Rolf E. Kleiner: Chief Innovation Officer Solutions* Carolyn Palmer: , Global Marketing * Peter Quigley: , General Counsel , Assistant Secretary, and Chief Administrative Officer* Nina M. Ramsey: , Chief Human Resources Officer* Natalia Shuman, General Manager, EMEA and APAC Regions, Chief Operating Officer, North Asia* Judy Snyder, Chief Information Officer* Olivier Thirot, Acting Chief Financial Officer* Debra Thorpe: Centralized , Strategic Account Operations Management  

As of February 2013June 2015:<ref name="leaders"></ref>* Terence E. Adderley: , Executive Chairman and Chairmanof the Board* Donald R. Parfet: , Lead Director

* Robert S. Cubbin* Jane E. Dutton * Maureen A. Fay * Terrence B. Larkin * Conrad L. Mallet, Jr. * Leslie A. Murphy * Toshio Saburi * B. Joseph White

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==Political contributionsContributions==Kelly Services gave reporting $4099,550 010 in contributions to federal candidates in the 2006 2014 election through its [[political action committee]] - 44% cycle, with 29 percent going to [[Democrats]] and 56% 69 percent to Republicans.<ref>Center for Responsive Politics, "[[Republican Party (USA)|Republicans]http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000026980&cycle=2014 Kelly Services]," contributions profile, Open Secrets database, accessed June 2015.</ref> ==Lobbying==The company reported $81,370 in federal lobbying expenses in 2014, $80,000 of which went to the lobbying firm Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates. Reported lobbying issues included health care reform/Affordable Care Act and the Work Opportunity Tax Credit,<ref>Center for Responsive Politics, "[http://www.opensecrets.org/pacslobby/lookup2clientsum.aspphp?strIDid=C00212522 2006 PAC Summary DataD000026980&year=2014 Kelly Services], ''" lobbying profile, Open Secrets''database, accessed June 2015.</ref> which provides tax credits for hiring military veterans.<ref>Internal Revenue Service, "[http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/Work-Opportunity-Tax-Credit-Frequently-Asked-Questions-and-Answers Work Opportunity Tax Credit - Frequently Asked Questions and Answers]," government website, accessed October 2007June 2015.</ref>

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