-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, WeqKEz8b2blLGzkAn/g5ozuYiWu44f/NxEpIhea5+4oz4e2RZr7FwGofGlOcWZ6p kcvWnAf2ygB0Hbd6Pt8J7Q== 0001362310-09-006835.txt : 20090508 0001362310-09-006835.hdr.sgml : 20090508 20090508072648 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001362310-09-006835 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20090505 ITEM INFORMATION: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20090508 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20090508 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KELLY SERVICES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000055135 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-HELP SUPPLY SERVICES [7363] IRS NUMBER: 381510762 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0103 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-01088 FILM NUMBER: 09807818 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 999 W BIG BEAVER RD CITY: TROY STATE: MI ZIP: 48084 BUSINESS PHONE: 2483624444 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 999 WEST BIG BEAVER RD CITY: TROY STATE: MI ZIP: 48084 8-K 1 c84982e8vk.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 5, 2009
KELLY SERVICES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
         
DELAWARE   0-1088   38-1510762
         
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
  (Commission File Number)   (IRS Employer Identification No.)
     
999 WEST BIG BEAVER ROAD
TROY, MICHIGAN
   
48084
     
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (248) 362-4444
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
o   Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
 
o   Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
 
o   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
 
o   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
 
 


 

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year
At the May 5, 2009 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Kelly Services, Inc. (the “Company”), amendments to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation were adopted, which have the effect of increasing the size of the board of directors and eliminating the classified board of directors and certain supermajority voting requirements. The Restated Certificate of Incorporation as amended was filed and became effective on May 6, 2009. The full text of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation is set forth in Exhibit 3.1 of this Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.
At its Organization Meeting held on May 5, 2009, the board of directors adopted amendments to the Company’s Bylaws, which have the effect of conforming Articles II, III and VIII thereof with the Restated Certificate of Incorporation as amended. The full text of the Bylaws is set forth in Exhibit 3.2 to this Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
         
  3.1    
Restated Certification of Incorporation, effective May 6, 2009
       
 
  3.2    
Bylaws, effective May 6, 2009

 

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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
         
  KELLY SERVICES, INC.
 
 
Date: May 8, 2009
 
   
  /s/ Daniel T. Lis    
  Daniel T. Lis   
  Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary   

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX
         
Exhibit No.   Description
       
 
  3.1    
Restated Certification of Incorporation, effective May 6, 2009
       
 
  3.2    
Bylaws, effective May 6, 2009

 

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EX-3.1 2 c84982exv3w1.htm EXHIBIT 3.1 Exhibit 3.1
Exhibit 3.1
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
KELLY SERVICES, INC.
* * * * *
Kelly Services, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Delaware, certifies as follows:
1. The name of the Corporation is KELLY SERVICES, INC.
2. The original certificate of incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on August 27, 1952 under the name of PERSONNEL SERVICE, INC.
3. This Restated Certificate of Incorporation amends and restates the certificate of incorporation of the corporation heretofore in effect. This Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware by the directors and stockholders of the corporation.
4. The Restated Certificate of Incorporation so adopted reads in full as follows:
FIRST: The name of this corporation is Kelly Services, Inc.
SECOND: Its principal office in the State of Delaware is located at 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its resident agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
THIRD: The nature of the business, or objects or purposes to be transacted, promoted or carried on are:
To furnish office, clerical, supervisory and consultant services.
To manufacture, purchase or otherwise acquire, invest in, own, mortgage, pledge, sell, assign and transfer or otherwise dispose of, trade, deal in and deal with goods, wares and merchandise and personal property of every class and description.
To acquire, and pay for in cash, stock or bonds of this corporation or otherwise, the good will, rights, assets and property, and to undertake or assume the whole or any part of the obligations or liabilities of any person, firm, association or corporation.
To acquire, hold, use, sell, assign, lease, grant licenses in respect of, mortgage or otherwise dispose of letters patent of the United States or any foreign country, patent rights, licenses and privileges, inventions, improvements and processes, copyrights, trade-marks and trade names, relating to or useful in connection with any business of this corporation.
To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to receive, hold, own, guarantee, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of or deal in and with any of the shares of the capital stock, or any voting trust certificates in respect of the shares of capital stock, scrip, warrants, rights, bonds, debentures, notes, trust receipts, and other securities, obligations, choses in action and evidences of indebtedness or interest issued or created by any corporations, joint stock companies, syndicates, associations, firms, trusts or persons, public or private, or by the government of the United States of America, or by any foreign government, or by any state, territory, province, municipality or other political subdivision or by any governmental agency, and as owner thereof to possess and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to execute consents and vote thereon, and to do any and all acts and things necessary or advisable for the preservation, protection, improvement and enhancement in value thereof.
To enter into, make and perform contracts of every kind and description with any person, firm, association, corporation, municipality, county, state, body politic or government or colony or dependency thereof.

 

 


 

To borrow or raise moneys for any of the purposes of the corporation and, from time to time, without limit as to amount to draw, make, accept, endorse, execute and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures and other negotiable or non-negotiable instruments and evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of any thereof and of the interest thereon by mortgage upon or pledge, conveyance or assignment in trust of the whole or any part of the property of the corporation, whether at the time owned or thereafter acquired, and to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of such bonds or other obligations of the corporation for its corporate purposes.
To loan to any person, firm or corporation any of its surplus funds, either with or without security.
To purchase, hold, sell and transfer the shares of its own capital stock; provided it shall not use its funds or property for the purchase of its own shares of capital stock when such use would cause any impairment of its capital except as otherwise permitted by law, and provided further that shares of its own capital stock belonging to it shall not be voted upon directly or indirectly.
To operate a private trade school and business school in the State of Michigan after obtaining the necessary license for such operation for the instruction of students in various office skills, including, but not by way of limitation, instruction in the use of various office equipment and machines.
To have one or more offices, to carry on all or any of its operations and business and without restriction or limit as to amount to purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, own, mortgage, sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of real and personal property of every class and description in any of the States, Districts, Territories or Colonies of the United States, and in any and all foreign countries, subject to the laws of such State, District, Territory, Colony or Country.
In general, to carry on any other business in connection with the foregoing, and to have and exercise all the powers conferred by the laws of Delaware upon corporations formed under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and to do any or all of the things hereinbefore set forth to the same extent as natural persons might or could do.
The objects and purposes specified in the foregoing clauses shall, except where otherwise expressed, be in nowise limited or restricted by reference to, or inference from, the terms of any other clause in this certificate of incorporation, but the objects and purposes specified in each of the foregoing clauses of this article shall be regarded as independent objects and purposes.
FOURTH:
Division A
The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is 110,000,000 shares, the par value of each of the shares is $1.00, amounting in the aggregate to $110,000,000, and the shares are divided into two classes consisting of 100,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock and 10,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock.
Division B
The designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions in respect of the shares of each class are as follows:
(a) Dividends. Holders of the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to receive dividends, out of funds legally available therefor, when and as declared by the Board of Directors, subject only to the limitations that (1) no cash dividend payable on the shares of the Class B Common Stock shall be declared unless the Board of Directors shall concurrently declare a cash dividend on the shares of the Class A Common Stock at a rate which is not less than the rate of the cash dividend payable on the shares of the Class B Common Stock (but a cash dividend may be declared on the Class A Common Stock without declaring a cash dividend on the Class B Common Stock), and (2) no dividend payable in shares of the Class B Common Stock shall be declared on the Class A Common Stock (but a dividend payable in shares of Class A Common Stock may be declared on the Class A Common Stock or the Class B Common Stock and a dividend payable in shares of Class B Common Stock may be declared on the Class B Common Stock).

 

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(b) Voting Rights. Except on matters where their vote is required by Delaware law, the holders of the Class A Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any matter coming before any meeting of stockholders. The holders of the Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote per share upon each matter coming before any meeting of stockholders.
(c) Conversion of Class B Common Stock.
1. Shares of Class B Common Stock shall be convertible, at the option of the respective holders thereof, at any time, into fully paid and non-assessable shares of Class A Common Stock on the basis of one share of Class A Common Stock for each share of Class B Common Stock.
2. No payment or adjustment with respect to dividends on shares of the Class A Common Stock or on the Class B Common Stock shall be made in connection with any conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock into shares of Class A Common Stock.
3. The holders of a certificate or certificates for Class B Common Stock, in order to effect the conversion of shares represented thereby, shall surrender the certificate or certificates to the corporation or to the Transfer Agent for the shares of the Class B Common Stock, with request for conversion. If the shares of the Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion are to be issued in a name other than that in which the shares of the Class B Common Stock to be converted are registered, the certificate or certificates shall be duly endorsed for transfer or accompanied by a duly executed stock transfer power, and shall also be accompanied by the necessary stock transfer stamps or equivalent funds.
Upon surrender of the certificate or certificates, the corporation shall issue and deliver or cause to be issued and delivered to the person entitled thereto a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of the Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion. The corporation shall pay all original issue taxes, if any, payable upon the issue of shares of the Class A Common Stock issued upon any conversion.
The conversion shall be deemed to have been effected on the date of the surrender of the certificate or certificates of shares of the Class B Common Stock, and the person in whose name the certificate or certificates of the shares of the Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion are to be issued shall be deemed to be the holder of record of the shares as of that date.
4. If there should be any capital reorganization or any reclassification of the Class A Common Stock, the shares of the Class B Common Stock shall thereafter have the right to be converted into the number of shares of stock or other securities or property of the corporation to which outstanding shares of the Class A Common Stock would have been entitled upon the effective date of the reorganization or reclassification. The Board of Directors shall make an appropriate adjustment in the application of the provisions of this paragraph (c) with respect to the conversion rights of the holders of the shares of the Class B Common Stock after the reorganization or reclassification, to the end that the provisions shall be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in respect to any shares or other securities or property thereafter issuable or deliverable upon the conversion of shares of the Class B Common Stock. The provisions of this sub-paragraph shall not apply to a reorganization or reclassification involving merely a subdivision or combination of outstanding shares of the Class A Common Stock.
5. In case the corporation shall be consolidated with or merged into any other corporation or shall sell or transfer its property and business as or substantially as an entirety, then the stock or other securities or other property, including cash, issuable or deliverable in connection with such consolidation, merger or sale in respect of each share of the Class A Common Stock then outstanding, shall thereafter, for the purposes of the conversion rights of the Class B Common Stock, be deemed the equivalent of one share of Class A Common Stock. Upon the exercise of conversion rights, holders of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to receive on an equivalent basis and at the same rate and on the other terms and conditions set forth in this paragraph (c), the stock or other securities or property, including cash, deemed to be the equivalent of Class A Common Stock. Lawful provisions to this effect shall be made a part of and condition to the consolidation, merger or sale.

 

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6. In case the corporation shall propose (i) to effect any reclassification of the Class A Common Stock or any capital reorganization involving a change in the Class A Common Stock, other than a reclassification or reorganization involving merely a subdivision or combination of outstanding shares of the Class A Common Stock, or (ii) to consolidate with or merge into another corporation, or to sell or transfer its property and business as or substantially as an entirety, then, in each such case, the corporation shall file with each Transfer Agent for the shares of the Class B Common Stock and shall mail to the holders of record of the shares at their respective addresses then appearing on the records of the corporation a statement, signed by an officer of the corporation, with respect to the proposed action, the statement to be so filed and mailed at least 30 days prior to the record date for holders of the Class A Common Stock for the purposes thereof. The statement shall set forth such facts with respect to the proposed action as shall be reasonably necessary to inform each Transfer Agent for the shares of the Class B Common Stock and the holders of those shares as to the effect of the action upon the conversion rights of the holders.
7. The corporation shall at all times have authorized but unissued, or in its treasury, a number of shares of the Class A Common Stock sufficient for the conversion of all shares of the Class B Common Stock from time to time outstanding.
8. In case the shares of the Class A Common Stock or the Class B Common Stock at any time outstanding shall, by reclassification or otherwise, be subdivided into a greater number of shares or combined into a lesser number of shares, the shares of Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock, respectively, then outstanding shall, at the same time, be subdivided or combined, as the case may be, on the same basis.
(d) Preemptive Rights. Holders of the Class A Common Stock shall have no preemptive right to subscribe to any securities issued by the corporation. Holders of the Class B Common Stock shall have the preemptive right to subscribe to additional shares of Class B Common Stock, or any other voting stock or any security convertible into Class B Common Stock or other voting stock, hereafter issued by the corporation.
(e) Liquidation Preferences.
1. In the event of dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, holders of the Class A Common Stock and of the Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to payment out of the assets of the corporation ratably in accordance with the number of shares held by them respectively.
2. Neither a consolidation nor a merger of the corporation with or into any other corporation, nor a merger of any other corporation into the corporation, nor the purchase or other acquisition by the corporation of all or a part of the outstanding shares of any class or classes of its stock, nor the sale or transfer of the property and business of the corporation, as or substantially as an entirety, shall be considered a dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the corporation within the meaning of the foregoing provisions.
FIFTH: The business, property and affairs of this corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors consisting of no fewer than five (5) and no more than eleven (11) members, the exact number to be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors. Effective at each annual meeting of the stockholders of the corporation from and after the annual meeting to be held in 2010, all director nominees shall stand for election to terms expiring at the next succeeding annual meeting, with each director to hold office until his successor is duly elected and qualified, subject, however, to prior death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. The term of each director serving as of and immediately prior to the annual meeting of the stockholders of the corporation to be held in 2010 shall expire as of the date of such annual meeting, notwithstanding that such director may have been elected for a term that extended beyond the date of such annual meeting. The Board of Directors may exercise all such powers of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by the by-laws directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.
Newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors and vacancies in the Board of Directors from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal from office or other cause, shall be filled by a majority vote of the directors then in office, and directors so chosen shall hold office for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of the stockholders of the corporation and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, subject, however, to prior death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

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Any director, or the entire Board of Directors, may be removed at any time, with or without cause. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of all of the stock of this corporation entitled to vote in elections of directors shall be required to remove a director from office. The stockholders of the corporation are expressly prohibited from cumulating their votes in any election of directors of the corporation.
SIXTH: The names and places of residence of the incorporators were as follows:
     
Names   Residences
L. E. Gray
  Wilmington, Delaware
S. M. Brown
  Wilmington, Delaware
A. D. Atwell
  Townsend, Delaware
SEVENTH: By-laws of the corporation may be adopted, amended or repealed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the total number of directors or by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of all of the stock of this corporation entitled to vote in elections of directors. The by-laws may contain any provision for the regulation and management of the affairs of the corporation and the rights or powers of its stockholders, directors, officers, or employees not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware.
EIGHTH:
In furtherance, and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized:
To fix the amount to be reserved as working capital over and above its capital stock paid in, to authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon the real and personal property of this corporation.
From time to time to determine whether and to what extent, and at what times and places, and under what conditions and regulations, the accounts and books of this corporation (other than the stock ledger), or any of them, shall be open to inspection of stockholders; and no stockholder shall have any right of inspecting any account, book or document of this corporation except as conferred by statute, unless authorized by a resolution of the stockholders or directors.
By resolution or resolutions, passed by a majority of the whole board to designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of two or more of the directors of the corporation, which, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, or in the by-laws of this corporation, shall have and may exercise the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of this corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of this corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. The committee or committees shall have the name or names as may be stated in the by-laws of this corporation or as may be determined from time to time by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors.
This corporation may in its by-laws confer powers upon its directors in addition to the foregoing, and in addition to the powers and authorities expressly conferred upon them by the statute.
Both stockholders and directors shall have power, if the by-laws so provide, to hold their meetings, and to have one or more offices within or without the State of Delaware, and to keep the books of this corporation (subject to the provisions of the statutes), outside of the State of Delaware at such places as may be from time to time designated by the Board of Directors.
NINTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof, or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said Court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the Court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this corporation.

 

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TENTH: The Board of Directors of this corporation, when evaluating any offer of another party to (a) make a tender or exchange offer for any equity security of this corporation; (b) merge or consolidate this corporation with another corporation; or (c) purchase or otherwise acquire all or substantially all of the properties and assets of this corporation, shall, in connection with the exercise of its judgment in determining what is in the best interest of this corporation and its stockholders, give due consideration to such factors as the Board of Directors determines to be relevant, including without limitation, the social, legal and economic effects of the proposed transaction upon employees, customers, suppliers, and other affected persons, firms and corporations and on the communities in which this corporation and its subsidiaries operate or are located.
ELEVENTH: No action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders of this corporation may be taken without a meeting and the power of stockholders to consent in writing, without a meeting, to the taking of any action is specifically denied.
TWELFTH: No director of the corporation shall be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty by such director as a director; provided, however, that this Article TWELFTH shall not eliminate or limit liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. No amendment or repeal of this Article TWELFTH shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any director of the corporation for or with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.
THIRTEENTH: Special meetings of the stockholders of this corporation for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the Board of Directors or by a committee of the Board of Directors which has been duly designated by the Board of Directors and whose powers and authority, as provided in a resolution of the Board of Directors or in the by-laws of this corporation, include the power to call such meetings, but such special meetings may not be called by any other person or persons.
FOURTEENTH: This corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Kelly Services, Inc. has caused this Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by Daniel T. Lis, its Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary this 5th day of May, 2009.
         
  KELLY SERVICES, INC.
 
 
  By   /s/ Daniel T. Lis    
    Daniel T. Lis   
    Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary   

 

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EX-3.2 3 c84982exv3w2.htm EXHIBIT 3.2 Exhibit 3.2
Exhibit 3.2
KELLY SERVICES, INC.
B Y L A W S
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
Section 1. The registered office shall be in the County of New Castle, State of Delaware.
Section 2. The corporation may also have offices at such other places both within and without the State of Delaware as the board of directors may from time to time determine or the business of the corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
STOCKHOLDERS
Section 1. All meetings of the stockholders for the election of directors shall be held at such place either within or without the State of Delaware as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors and stated in the notice of the meeting. Meetings of stockholders for any other purpose may be held at such time and place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting or in a duly executed waiver of notice thereof.
Section 2. Annual meetings of stockholders shall be held on such date and at such time as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors and stated in the notice of the meeting, at which stockholders shall elect by a plurality vote a board of directors, and transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 3. The Secretary of the corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting at the place where the meeting is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present.
Section 4. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may be called by the board of directors or by a committee of the board of directors which has been duly designated and empowered by the board of directors. Such special meetings may not be called by any other person or persons.
Section 5. The Secretary or any Assistant Secretary shall cause written notice of the place, date and hour of each meeting of the stockholders, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which such meeting is called, to be given, not less than ten nor more than sixty days prior to the meeting, to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting. Such further notice shall be given as may be required by law.
Section 6. No notice of any meeting of stockholders need be given to any stockholder who submits a signed waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, provided however, that any actions taken at a meeting shall not be effective until all required waivers are signed and received by the corporation. Waivers of notice may specify a time period during which such waivers will apply to any and all meetings held. No waiver of notice that is received by the corporation more than 30 days after the date of a meeting to which it applies shall be effective for that meeting. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be specified in a written waiver of notice. The attendance of any stockholder at a meeting of stockholders shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the stockholder attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

 


 

Section 7. The holders of 60% of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by statute or by the certificate of incorporation. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented. At such adjourned meeting, at which a quorum shall be present or represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.
Section 8. When a quorum is present at any meeting, the vote of the holders of a majority of the stock having voting power present in person or represented by proxy shall decide any question brought before such meeting, unless the question is one which by express provision of the statutes or of the certificate of incorporation, a different vote is required in which case such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question.
Section 9. Each stockholder shall at every meeting of the stockholders be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy appointed by an instrument in writing subscribed by such stockholder for each share of the capital stock having voting power held by such stockholder, but no proxy shall be voted on after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period.
Section 10. No action required or permitted to be taken at any annual meeting or special meeting of the stockholders of this corporation may be taken without a meeting and the power of the stockholders to consent in writing, without a meeting, to the taking of any action is specifically denied.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. The number of directors constituting the whole board shall be no fewer than five (5) and no more than eleven (11), which number shall be fixed, and may be modified from time to time, by resolution of the board of directors, but in no event shall the number of directors be less than five (5). The directors shall be elected as provided in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation. The board of directors may designate one of its members to act as the Chairman of the board.
Section 2. Vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled as provided in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation. If there are no directors in office, then an election of directors may be held in the manner provided by statute.
Section 3. The business of the corporation shall be managed by the board of directors which shall have and exercise full power in the management and conduct of the business and affairs of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the certificate of incorporation or by these bylaws directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.
MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 4. The board of directors of the corporation may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or without the State of Delaware.
Section 5. Immediately following and at the place of holding the annual meeting of stockholders, the board of directors, as constituted upon final adjournment of such annual meeting, shall convene for the purpose of electing officers and transacting any other business properly brought before it. No notice of such meeting to the newly elected directors shall be necessary in order legally to constitute the meeting, provided a quorum shall be present.
Section 6. Regular meetings of the board of directors may be held without notice at such time and at such place as shall from time to time be determined by the board.
Section 7. Special meetings of the board may be called by the Chairman of the board or by the Chief Executive Officer on one day’s notice to each director. Special meetings shall be called by the Chairman of the board or by the Chief Executive Officer or Secretary on like notice on the written request of a majority of the directors then in office.

 

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Section 8. At all meetings of the board of directors a majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the board of directors, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute or by the certificate of incorporation. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting of the board of directors, the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present. The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the board of directors, and shall have such other powers as the board may determine. If a director has not been designated as Chairman, or if the designated Chairman is not present, the board of directors shall designate, from time to time, a chairman from amongst its members to serve as chairman of each meeting of the board of directors.
Section 9. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the board of directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting, if all members of the board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the board or committee.
COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS
Section 10. The board of directors shall, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole board, designate such committees of the board as may be required by a governmental agency having jurisdiction over the affairs of the corporation or by any securities exchange on which securities issued by the corporation may be listed, and the board of directors may, by resolution passed by majority of the whole board, designate one or more additional committees, each committee to consist of two or more of the directors of the corporation. The board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. Any such committee, to the extent provided by applicable law, rule or regulation or in the resolution, shall have and may exercise the powers of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation. Such committee or committees shall have such name or names as may be determined from time to time by resolution adopted by the board of directors and committee or committees may, subject to approval by the board of directors, adopt a charter governing the conduct of the affairs of the committee, but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to the following matters: (i) approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter expressly required by the General Corporation Law of Delaware to be submitted to stockholders for approval or (ii) adopting, amending or repealing any bylaw of the corporation.
Section 11. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the board of directors when required.
COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS
Section 12. The amount, if any, which each director who is not an officer or employee of the corporation shall be entitled to receive as compensation for his or her services, and the form thereof, shall be fixed from time to time by resolution of the board of directors, and may vary within that group from one director, class of directors, or category of directors to another, provided however, that any person who is an officer or employee of the corporation shall not receive any form of compensation for serving as a director of the corporation.
ARTICLE IV
NOTICES
Section 1. Whenever, under the provisions of the statutes or of the certificate of incorporation or of these bylaws, notice is required to be given to any director or stockholder, it shall not be construed to mean personal notice only, but such notice may be given personally or in writing, by mail, addressed to such director or stockholder, at his or her address as it appears on the records of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid, and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time when the same shall be deposited in the United States mail. Notice to directors may also be given by facsimile communication. Notice may also be given to stockholders by a form of electronic transmission in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Section 232 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
Section 2. Whenever any notice is required to be given under the provisions of the statutes or of the certificate of incorporation or of these bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto.

 

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ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. The board of directors shall elect a Secretary and it may, if it so determines, choose a President, one or more Vice Presidents (who may be designated as Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents or Executive Vice Presidents or other appropriate title), and a Treasurer. The corporation may also have such additional or assistant officers as the board of directors, Chief Executive Officer or Chief Operating Officer may deem necessary for its business and may appoint from time to time. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person.
Section 2. The board of directors shall designate an officer as the Chief Executive Officer, and shall have the authority, but shall not be required, to designate officers as the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer or similar such titles.
DUTIES
Section 3. Subject to direction and under the supervision of the board of directors, the Chief Executive Officer shall have general control of the affairs of the corporation.
Section 4. The salaries of all officers and agents of the corporation shall be fixed by the Chief Executive Officer subject to revision by the board of directors.
Section 5. Each officer shall have the authority and shall perform the duties set forth in these bylaws or, to the extent consistent with the bylaws, the duties prescribed by the board of directors, by the Chief Executive Officer, and, to the extent not so provided, as generally pertain to their respective offices, subject to the control of the board of directors. Any designation of duties by the Chief Executive Officer shall be subject to review by the board of directors but shall be in full force and effect in the absence of such review.
TENURE, REMOVAL AND RESIGNATION
Section 6. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the board of directors after the annual meeting of stockholders next succeeding his or her election, and until his or her successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier resignation or removal.
Section 7. Any officer elected or appointed by the board of directors may be removed at any time either with or without cause by the affirmative vote of a majority of the board of directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation shall be filled by the board of directors.
Section 8. Any director or officer may resign at any time, and if made in writing, the resignation is to be deemed accepted and effective from the time of its receipt by the corporation, unless some later time be fixed in the resignation, and then from that time.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK
Section 1. Every holder of stock in the corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate, signed by, or in the name of the corporation by, the Chairman of the board of directors or a President or a Vice President or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the corporation, under the seal of the corporation, certifying the number of shares owned by such stockholder in the corporation.
Section 2. Where a certificate is countersigned (1) by a transfer agent other than the corporation or its employee, and, (2) by a registrar other than the corporation or its employee, the signatures of the officers of the corporation may be facsimiles. In case any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer at the date of issue.

 

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LOST CERTIFICATES
Section 3. The board of directors may direct a new certificate or certificates to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the corporation alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of the fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the board of directors may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or certificates, or such owner’s legal representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or to give the corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.
TRANSFERS OF STOCK
Section 4. Upon surrender to the corporation or the transfer agent of the corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the corporation to issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the transaction upon its books.
FIXING RECORD DATE
Section 5. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the board of directors may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action. In no event shall such record date precede the date of the resolution establishing it. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the board of directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS
Section 6. The corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends, and to vote as such owner, and to hold liable for calls and assessments a person registered on its books as the owner of shares, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice hereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Delaware.
ARTICLE VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Dividends upon the common stock of the corporation, subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation, if any, may be declared by the board of directors at any regular or special meeting, pursuant to law. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the common stock, subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation.
Section 2. Before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of any funds of the corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the directors from time to time, in their absolute discretion, think proper as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, or for such other purpose as the directors shall think conducive to the interest of the corporation, and the directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.
ANNUAL STATEMENT
Section 3. The board of directors shall present at each annual meeting a full and clear statement of the business and condition of the corporation.

 

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CHECKS AND NOTES
Section 4. All checks or demands for money of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the board of directors may from time to time designate. The notes of the corporation shall be signed by at least two of the officers of the corporation appointed by the board of directors.
FISCAL YEAR
Section 5. The fiscal year of the corporation shall end at the close of business on the Sunday nearest December 31.
SEAL
Section 6. The corporate seal shall be circular in form and contain around its circumference the full corporate name of the corporation and the state of incorporation and in the center the words “Corporate Seal” and the year of incorporation. The seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced or otherwise.
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 7. A director or officer, or former director or officer, of the corporation, or any person who may have served at its request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, and such person’s heirs, executors, and administrators, shall be indemnified by the corporation against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any action, suit or proceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) in which he or she may be called to testify or provide documents or to which he or she may be made a party by reason of any alleged acts or omissions as such director or officer if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, such person had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.
Section 8. A director or officer, or former director or officer, of the corporation, or any person who may have served at its request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, and such person’s heirs, executors, and administrators, shall be indemnified by the corporation against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of any alleged acts or omissions as such director or officer if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all of the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
Section 9. To the extent that a director or officer of the corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Section 7 or 8 of this Article VII, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he or she shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith.
Section 10. Expenses incurred by a director or officer, former director or officer, or such person’s heirs, executors and administrators in defending a civil or criminal action shall be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer, or such person’s heirs, executors or administrators to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation.
Section 11. The foregoing rights of indemnification and advancement of expenses shall be in addition to and not exclusive of any and all other rights to which such director or officer, or former director or officer, or such person’s heirs, executors or administrators might be entitled as a matter of law.

 

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ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. Subject to the provisions of statute, the bylaws of the corporation may be adopted, amended or repealed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the total number of directors or by the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the voting power of all of the stock of this corporation entitled to vote in elections of directors, provided, however, that no bylaw adopting or changing the qualifications for service as a member of the board of directors shall cause any member of the board of directors serving at the time such bylaw is implemented to be disqualified from service prior to the expiration of such director’s current term of office. The bylaws may contain any provision for the regulation and management of the affairs of the corporation and the rights or powers of its stockholders, directors, officers, or employees not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

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