Kelly® CEO Sets Course to Upend Systemic Barriers to Employment; Urges Other Partners to Join Forces in Tackling Unjust Barr...
16 Octobre 2020 - 6:01AM
Kelly President and CEO Peter Quigley today unveiled Equity@Work, a
bold initiative designed to remove systemic – and rarely challenged
– barriers to work for millions of Americans. The initiative, which
sets aggressive changes to Kelly’s own full-time employee hiring
practices, will also broadly address regulatory injustices and
outdated biases that rob far too many people of opportunity and
upward mobility every day.
“Equity@Work sets the course for changes to
Kelly’s own hiring practices such as removing salary and criminal
history from our internal employment applications,” said Quigley.
“As part of this initiative, we are also calling on like-minded
leaders and organizations to join forces in addressing workforce
barriers. When we stand together against inequities, we can help
people reach their full potential.”
Additionally, Kelly has updated its policy
around minor drug offenses – specifically marijuana convictions –
to allow more people with few or low-level criminal offenses
greater opportunity to access work within the company. Kelly is
also using technology across its job posting language to facilitate
equitable and inclusive terminology.
“We’ve been connecting people to work for nearly
75 years, and today’s announcement is our boldest step yet in
ensuring more Americans can access employment that enriches their
lives,” said Quigley. “We intend to relentlessly focus on this
aspiration. Unfortunately, we still see far too many barriers in
our society that make it hard – or even impossible – for some
people, particularly underserved and vulnerable populations, to
secure meaningful work.”
Kelly counts many of the Fortune 100 as clients,
along with numerous mid-sized corporations, and the company intends
to encourage and support its customers – large and small – to make
meaningful changes to hiring practices around the globe.
Equity@Work includes several collaborations with organizations
joining forces to open doors to greater equity, pull millions of
people out of poverty, and set new pathways for more people to
thrive professionally and personally. Efforts include:
- Kelly is working on a partnership with the SHRM
Foundation to bring workplace inclusion and criminal
history barriers to the forefront of HR.
- Kelly and the Detroit Regional Talent Compact
are engaging to work with community, business and academic leaders
to improve the region’s access to post high-school educational
credentials and reduce equity gaps.
- Kelly is working in the education field on Pathway to
Teaching, a program that provides diverse candidates a
pathway to participate in on-the-job credentialing and the
opportunity to secure a career in the classroom.
- Kelly has also benefited from the expertise of Lumina
Foundation and their focus on opening equitable pathways
to work through education.
“We need a more diverse, equitable and inclusive
labor market to grow the economy. That’s why we must come
together—now, not later—to break the barriers keeping people from
maximizing their potential through the dignity of work,” said Wendi
Safstrom, Executive Director, SHRM Foundation. “We applaud Kelly
for its commitment to this great purpose of creating a better world
by making better workplaces.”
“Kelly is uniquely positioned to play a pivotal
role as a catalyst for change by removing unjust barriers to work,”
said Quigley. “Our company operates in a space of influence at the
very center of supply and demand in our labor market. We identify
and recruit talented people, and we connect them to employers with
workforce needs. We work on both sides of the equation and that
puts us in a unique position to understand, collaborate and act
upon the outdated policies and regulatory injustices holding far
too many people back.”
Last month, Kelly also joined CEO Action for
Diversity and Inclusion, the largest CEO-driven business commitment
to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace. Kelly also
has a global Inclusion Council and affinity groups for Black,
LatinX, LGBTQ, women, and millennial employees. Learn more about
Equity@Work.
About
Kelly®
Kelly connects talented people to companies in
need of their skills in areas including Science, Engineering,
Education, Office, Contact Center, Light Industrial, and more.
We’re always thinking about what’s next in the evolving world of
work, and we help people ditch the script on old ways of thinking
and embrace the value of all workstyles in the workplace. We
directly employ nearly 440,000 people around the world, and we
connect thousands more with work through our global network of
talent suppliers and partners in our outsourcing and consulting
practice. Visit kellyservices.com and let us help with what’s next
for you.
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