Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 281 - Education Department › Title III - Community Colleges › Chapter 21 - Community Colleges › Rule 281-21.41 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
For the purpose of Division IV, the following definitions
				  apply:
"Apprentice"
means a worker at least 16
				  years of age, except where a higher minimum age standard is otherwise fixed by
				  law, who is employed to learn a skilled trade or occupation under the standards
				  of apprenticeship.
"Apprenticeable occupation"
means a skilled
				  trade that possesses all of the following characteristics:
1. It is customarily learned in a practical
				way through a structured, systematic program of on-the-job, supervised
				training.
2. It is clearly
				identified and commonly recognized throughout an industry.
3. It involves manual, mechanical or
				technical skills and knowledge that require a minimum of 2,000 hours of
				on-the-job work experience.
4. It
				requires related instruction to supplement on-the-job training.
"Apprenticeship agreement"
means a written
				  agreement between an apprentice and the apprentice's employer, or an
				  apprenticeship committee acting as the agent for the employer(s). The agreement
				  contains the terms and conditions of the employment and training of the
				  apprentice.
"Apprenticeship committee"
means those
				  persons designated by the sponsor to act for it in the administration of the
				  program. A committee may be "joint," i.e., composed of an equal number of
				  representatives of the employer(s) and of the employees represented by a bona
				  fide collective bargaining agent(s), and is established to conduct, operate, or
				  administer an apprenticeship program and enter into apprenticeship agreements
				  with apprentices. A committee may be "unilateral" or "nonjoint" and shall mean
				  a program sponsor in which a bona fide collective bargaining agent is not a
				  participant.
"Apprenticeship program"
means a plan
				  containing all terms and conditions for the qualification, recruitment,
				  selection, employment and training of apprentices, including such matters as
				  required under 29 CFR Parts 29 and 30, including the requirement for a written
				  apprenticeship agreement.
"Cancellation"
means the termination of the
				  registration or approval status of a program at the request of the sponsor or
				  termination of an apprenticeship agreement at the request of the
				  apprentice.
"Certification"
or
"certificate"
means documentary evidence that at least one of
				  the following has been met:
1. The
				Office of Apprenticeship has approved a set of National Guidelines for
				Apprenticeship Standards developed by a national committee or organization,
				joint or unilateral, or policy or guideline used by local affiliates, as
				conforming to the standards of apprenticeship set forth in
				29 CFR Section
				29.5;
2. A registration agency has established that
				an individual is eligible for probationary employment as an apprentice under a
				registered apprenticeship program;
3. A registration agency has registered an
				apprenticeship program as evidenced by a certificate of registration or other
				written indicia;
4. A registration
				agency has determined that an apprenticeship has successfully met the
				requirements to receive an interim credential; or
5. A registration agency has determined that
				an individual has successfully completed an apprenticeship.
"Competency"
means the attainment of manual
				  or technical skill and knowledge as specified by an occupational
				  standard.
"Employer"
means any person or organization
				  employing an apprentice whether or not such person or organization is a party
				  to an apprenticeship agreement with the apprentice.
"Office of Apprenticeship"
mean the office
				  designated by the Employment and Training Administration to administer the
				  National Apprenticeship System or its successor organization.
"Registration agency"
shall mean the Office
				  of Apprenticeship.
"Registration of an apprenticeship
				  agreement"
means the acceptance and recording of an apprenticeship
				  agreement by the Office of Apprenticeship as evidence of the apprentice's
				  participation in a particular registered apprenticeship program.
"Related instruction"
or
"related
				  technical instruction"
means an organized and systematic form of
				  instruction designed to provide the apprentice with the core knowledge of the
				  theoretical and technical subjects related to the apprentice's occupation. Such
				  instruction may be given in a classroom through occupational or industrial
				  courses, by correspondence courses of equivalent value, by electronic media, or
				  by other forms of self-study approved by the registration agency.
"Sponsor"
means any person, association,
				  committee or organization operating an apprenticeship program and in whose name
				  the program is (or is to be) registered or approved.