Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 51d - Commissioner of Labor's Work Training Standards for Apprenticeship and Training Programs › Section 31-51d-3 - Eligibility and procedure for approval and registration

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) No apprenticeship program or agreement
			 shall be eligible for approval and registration unless it is in conformity with
			 the requirements of this regulation.
(b) The apprentice must be individually
			 registered by filing copies of each apprenticeship agreement with the director.
			 This registration is not transferable from one program sponsor to another
			 program sponsor without written notice to the director and formal transfer
			 thereof. When sponsor reorganization occurs, transfer of program obligations to
			 the new entity is allowed when new organization is controlled by former
			 principal officers or owners. Registration is reserved for those desiring to
			 learn a trade through reasonably continuous employment. Agreements shall not be
			 registered for persons desiring only work or employment on a substantially
			 shorter work week than is prevailing in the industry. This, however, does not
			 apply to pre-apprentices who are pursuing a course of career study as students
			 in the same trade or in study related to the trade.
(c) The director shall be notified promptly
			 of the termination or suspension of any registered training agreement, with
			 cause for same, and of apprenticeship and training completions. Certification
			 of the registration status of any apprentice shall be issued in writing by the
			 director upon request.
(d) Any
			 modification(s) or change(s) to registered standards shall be promptly
			 submitted to the director and, if duly approved, shall be recorded and
			 acknowledged as a revision of such standards.
(e) Under a program proposed for approval and
			 registration by an employer or employers' association where the standards,
			 collective bargaining agreement or other instrument provides for participation
			 by a union in any matter in the operation of the substantive matters of the
			 apprenticeship program and such participation is exercised, written
			 acknowledgement of union agreement or "no objection" to the registration is
			 required. Where no such 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 the application for registration and of the apprenticeship program. The
			 director 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 for approval.
(f) If the sponsor is involved in any
			 abnormal labor condition such as a strike, lockout, or other similar condition,
			 the approval of an apprenticeship program may be temporarily suspended until
			 such issue is resolved.
(g) If it
			 should be determined by the department that a sponsor is in violation of any
			 federal or state labor laws or rules or regulation, the apprenticeship program
			 approval may be suspended until such issue is resolved.