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America's second-largest employer is a temp agency

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 1:26 PM

Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider.

Friday's disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. The report also showed another disturbing fact: There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs.

Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing.

In the first quarter of 2013, U.S. staffing companies employed an average of 2.86 million temporary and contract workers, or 2 percent of all non-farm employment in the United States, according to the American Staffing Association. This represents a 2.9 percent growth from the same period in 2012. For just the month of June, there was a 6.7 percent growth in the number of staffing jobs than last year.

Temp jobs made up about 10 percent of the jobs lost during the Great Recession, and because of high turnover (the average length of temp employment is 3 months before a worker moves on to a permanent job), one in 10 non-farm workers were employed by a US staffing firm at some point during the past year, according to ASA. In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary.

It's a sad state of affairs for our country. While part-time and temp jobs reached highs last month, full-time jobs decreased by another 240,000. The recovery, or lack thereof, is being fueled by a shift from full-time to part-time work.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/recovery-woes-americas-second-largest-em
ployer-is-a-temp-agency/article/2532778

Yes, a sad state. The part-time President has created a nation of part-time job seekers and govt. teat suckers.

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 1:32 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Completely unforeseen w/ the passing of ObamaCare.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 4:01 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

That's all them "job creators", creatin' jobs.

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 4:12 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
That's all them "job creators", creatin' jobs.

Would be full time jobs, were it not for CeaserObamus, and his band of merry nit-wits.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 4:42 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Yes, I know. And the earth is flat too.

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:51 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yes, I know. And the earth is flat too.

Because of the absurdity of ObamaCare, businesses are trying to cut as many corners as possible, by not hiring full time, and instead hiring temps, so they don't have to offer health insurance. Much like the blockheads who supported this fiasco, you still don't get it, do you ?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:15 AM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Because of the absurdity of ObamaCare, businesses are trying to cut as many corners as possible, by not hiring full time, and instead hiring temps, so they don't have to offer health insurance. Much like the blockheads who supported this fiasco, you still don't get it, do you ?

So without Obamacare the businesses would be hiring and still not offering healthcare. Those buisnesses would only have it easier because they would not have to deal with temps.

...and then you have this.

http://www.smallbusinessmajority.org/small-business-research/healthcar
e/small-business-owners-views-on-aca.php

2/3 of small buisnesses, you know the job creators, do not what the law repealed. 50% like the law as is or with minor changes.

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:31 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Oh, let's see rappy... businesses don't cut corners to make a profit, they cut corners because of Obamacare? So, in all the decades before Obamacare, they were all too happy NOT to automate, to pay well over the minimum wages, to provide excellent benefits, not to ship jobs overseas to where the average wages is even less than ours, and to hire more workers than they needed? And part-time work and temp agencies are a recent invention, created in response to Obamacare?

I would bet my next 10 paychecks- and that's a lot of money- that you either can't or won't provide a substantive, on-point discussion of the factors driving unemployment, under-employment, low wages, and outsourcing, during the last 40 years of USA existance, but will lay every single thing that's wrong with our economy (and the EU's!) on Obama, and Fannie and Freddie. And the reason why I'm so sure you'll do that is because you're on of those people who absolutely REFUSES to look at ALL of the data; you'll cherry-pick your way to reach the deluded conclusions that you cling to so tightly.

And the same goes for Jongssie.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013 4:38 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Actually, sig, Rap is completely off the mark. "Temp" is different from "part time", which is giving people less than 30 hours a week so they don't have to pay benefits, and that's what he's trying to use Obamacare to score with. Temp is different; big agencies like Kelly DO give benefits, and actually, most companies would rather not use temp agencies, partly because they are expensive. They're also not as productive as long-term employees. I worked for a huge law firm that had offices in S.F., D.C., L.A. and a number of other big cities globally. Our word processing and floater secretarial staff was way overstaffed (this was before the big law-firm crash of the '90s) specifically to avoid having to use temps...they still used them, but only for big cases that required a lot of bodies for a short time.

What Rap doesn't realize is that Kelly DOES offer health care...I know, I worked for them at one time when between full-time jobs:

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As a Kelly employee, you’ll enjoy competitive pay as well as a medical benefits package that you can customize. Our benefits packages include:

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• 401 (k)
• Health Care Spending Account (HCSA)
• Dependent Care Spending Account (DCSA)
• Educational Assistance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Community Choice Credit Union
• Employee Referral Award Program
• Employee Discount Programs
• AARP Membership
• Online Training via the Kelly Learning Center
• Relocation packages

http://www.kellyservices.us/US/Careers/Corporate-Branch-Benefits-and-P
erks/

Sorry, Rap. Employers have been trending toward part time, non-union, outsourcing, etc., any way to increase their profits by screwing their employees, for many years now; Obamacare has made some companies drop people to part time to avoid paying healthcare, so it is an easy scapegoat for those who want to use it to push their agenda, but not the real problem. This trend has been going on for a long time, just another way companies have found to avoid paying benefits of any kind.

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