New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 11 - LABOR AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION › Chapter 2 - JOB TRAINING › Part 3 - STATE APPRENTICESHIP POLICY MANUAL › Section 11.2.3.6 - NEW MEXICO STATE APPRENTICESHIP OBJECTIVES

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. The department of workforce solutions
				("the department") is the state apprenticeship agency (SAA). By delegation, the
				apprenticeship director is the department's operating head and administrator
				for all apprenticeship related functions and activities.
B. General: To help achieve, through
				cooperative effort, the training of apprentices in apprenticeable occupations
				to meet current and future needs for skilled journey workers. To help insure
				that this training stays abreast of technological developments and needs for
				national security, and to increase the job opportunities, earning ability, and
				security of the apprentices. In order to provide equal opportunities for all
				qualified applicants for apprenticeship, hereafter all apprentices shall be
				selected in accordance with a plan which assures equality of opportunity and
				which is acceptable to the state apprenticeship council and approved by the
				department of workforce solutions.
C. Specific:
(1) to develop and improve techniques which
				will more accurately measure future apprenticeship requirements on a national,
				industrial, and community basis;
(2) to promote more widespread use of
				effective techniques which will assist in the selection and employment of
				apprentices;
(3) to make available
				to potential users, information relating to prospective apprenticeship
				requirements, occupational outlook, counseling techniques, and procedures which
				will aid:
(a) educational institutions in
				planning curricula;
(b) management
				and labor in planning apprenticeship programs;
(c) parents, teachers, and counselors in
				advising youth; and
(d) individuals
				in their occupational planning.
(4) to encourage communities to survey their
				apprenticeship needs in order to have a sound basis for providing adequate
				educational facilities, vocational guidance, selective placement services, and
				to assist in the development of sound educational and training opportunities
				for all individuals;
(5) to
				encourage those responsible for apprenticeship development in all industries to
				determine their future apprenticeship requirements in order to have a sound
				basis for action;
(6) To promote
				effective apprenticeship training by:
(a)
				studying the quantity and quality of apprenticeship training in
				industry;
(b) organizing and
				promoting research on effective apprenticeship training practices;
(c) encouraging the use of methods which have
				proven to be effective in apprenticeship training;
(d) developing and promoting services to
				assist management and labor in determining apprenticeship training needs;
				and
(e) developing, organizing, and
				offering technical assistance to apprenticeship training programs.
(7) to assist other agencies to
				develop and provide services for apprenticeship programs which are flexible and
				acceptable to labor and management; and
(8) to stimulate national, state, and local
				organizations and groups to give active support to effective apprenticeship
				training programs so that a greater proportion of journey workers in
				apprenticeable occupations will have achieved their skill through
				apprenticeship programs.