Apprentice Hiring Requirements on Federally Sample Clauses

Apprentice Hiring Requirements on Federally. Funded Projects (a) All Contractors/Employers performing Project Work will make every effort to employ the maximum number of Apprentices allowed by State Law. (b) The LACMTA will seek to make available through this Agreement or other means, significant apprenticeship opportunities for National Targeted Workers, consistent with Section 7.6(1) above. (c) Any apprentice must come from an apprenticeship program as defined in 1.2 above. (d) Unions shall track retention of Apprentices hired under the Policy through completion of the Project Work. The signatory unions shall collect the tracking information and shall submit quarterly retention reports to the LACMTA in the agreed upon format. (e) If the applicable Union is not able to refer an apprentice from a specific Extremely Economically Disadvantaged Area or Economically Disadvantaged Area in the United States, the Union will indenture a new apprentice from that Area and the C/S/E/D shall act as employer-sponsor for such apprentice, consistent with Section 7.5(1) and cover 25% of sponsorship fees for any such Apprentice hired. The amount covered by the C/S/E/D may be paid to the new Apprentice over the first three (3) paychecks. (f) The C/S/E/D shall provide to the LACMTA, information regarding any reasons given by apprenticeship programs for not accepting Contractor-referred National Targeted Workers into apprenticeship programs. (g) All apprentices shall work under the direct supervision of a journeyman from the trade in which the apprentice is indentured. A journeyman shall be defined as set forth in the California Code of Regulations, Title 8 [apprenticeship] section 205, which defines a journeyman as a person who has either completed an accredited apprenticeship in his or her craft, or has completed the equivalent of an apprenticeship in length and content of work experience and all other requirements in the craft which has workers classified as journeyman in the apprenticeable occupation. Each C/S/E/D shall provide adequate proof evidencing the worker's qualification as a journeyman.