Minnesota Administrative Rules

5200.0300 PROCEDURE FOR ESTABLISHING PROGRAMS.

The procedure for establishing an approved apprenticeship program is as follows. The proposed program must be presented to the director of the Division of Voluntary Apprenticeship by the program sponsor in duplicate and must include a detailed job process for the occupation including the training standards, amount of time to be spent in each individual category of training, percentage of journeyman's wage rate to be paid the apprentice, graduated schedule of wage increases, and the journeyman's wage rate for the proposed occupation.

Under a program proposed for registration by an employer or employers' association, and where the standards, collective bargaining agreement, or other instrument provides for participation by a union in any manner in the operation of the substantive matters of the apprenticeship program, and the participation is exercised, written acknowledgment of union agreement or no objection to the registration is required. Where no participation is evidenced and practiced, the employer or employers' association shall simultaneously furnish to the union, if any, which is the collective bargaining agent of the employees to be trained, a copy of its application for registration and of the apprenticeship program. The state agency shall provide a reasonable time of not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days for receipt of union comments, if any, before final action on the application for registration and/or approval. For purposes of this paragraph, "employer" means a person or organization employing an apprentice whether or not the person or organization is a party to an apprenticeship agreement with the apprentice.

If the program is approved by the director, a certificate of registration will be issued to the program sponsor. Within 90 days of the certificate being issued, the program sponsor must submit to the director of the Division of Voluntary Apprenticeship a copy of at least one apprenticeship agreement or the director may revoke the certificate of registration.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 14.388; 178.041

History:

9 SR 2008; 33 SR 130

Published Electronically:

August 11, 2008