Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part IV - Apprenticeship and Training Council › Chapter 81 - EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS › AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLANS › Section 81.22 - Outreach and positive recruitment

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
				  An acceptable affirmative action plan shall include adequate provision for
				  outreach and positive recruitment that would reasonably be expected to increase
				  minority and female participation in apprenticeship by expanding the
				  opportunity of minorities and women to become eligible for apprenticeship
				  selection. In order to achieve these objectives, sponsors shall undertake
				  activities such as those listed in subsection (b). It is not contemplated that
				  each sponsor necessarily will include all of the listed activities in its
				  affirmative action program. The scope of the affirmative action program will
				  depend on all the circumstances including the size and type of the program and
				  its resources; however, the sponsor shall be required to undertake a
				  significant number of appropriate activities in order to enable it to meet its
				  obligation under this chapter.
(b)
				  The affirmative action plan shall set forth the specific steps the sponsor
				  intends to take in the following areas:
(1)
				  Dissemination of information concerning the nature of apprenticeship,
				  availability of apprenticeship, opportunities, sources of apprenticeship
				  applications and the equal opportunity policy of the sponsor. For programs
				  accepting applications only at specified intervals, such information shall be
				  disseminated at least 30 days in advance of the earliest date for application
				  at each interval. For programs customarily receiving applications throughout
				  the year, such information shall be regularly disseminated but not less than
				  semiannually. Such information shall be given to the Council, local schools,
				  employment service offices, women's centers, public or private rehabilitation
				  centers and community organizations which can effectively reach minorities and
				  women, and published in newspapers which are circulated in the minority
				  community and among women, as well as the general areas in which the program
				  sponsor operates.
(2) Participation
				  in annual workshops conducted by employment service agencies for the purpose of
				  familiarizing school, employment service, and other appropriate personnel with
				  the apprenticeship system and current opportunities therein.
(3) Cooperation with local school boards and
				  vocational education systems to develop programs for preparing students to meet
				  the standards and criteria required to qualify for entry into apprenticeship
				  programs.
(4) Internal
				  communication of the equal opportunity policy of the spon- sor in such a manner
				  as to foster understanding, acceptance, and support among the sponsor's various
				  officers, supervisors, employes, and members and to encourage such persons to
				  take the necessary action to aid the sponsor in meeting its obligations under
				  this chapter.
(5) Engaging in
				  programs such as outreach for the positive recruitment and preparation of
				  potential applicants for apprenticeships. Where appropriate and feasible, such
				  programs shall provide for pretesting experience and training. If no such
				  programs are in existence, the sponsor shall seek to initiate these programs.
				  In initiating and conducting such programs, the sponsor may be required to work
				  with other sponsors and appropriate community organizations. The sponsor shall
				  also initiate programs to prepare women and encourage women to enter
				  traditionally male programs.
(6) In
				  order to encourage the establishment and utilization of programs of
				  preapprenticeship, preparatory trade training, or others designed to afford
				  related work experience or to prepare candidates for apprenticeship, a sponsor
				  shall make appropriate provision in its affirmative action plan to assure that
				  those who complete such programs are afforded full and equal opportunity for
				  admission into the apprenticeship program.
(7) Utilization of journeymen to assist in
				  the implementation of the affirmative action program of the sponsor.
(8) Granting advance standing or credit on
				  the basis of previously acquired experience, training, skills or aptitude for
				  all applicants equally.
(9)
				  Admission to apprenticeship programs of persons whose age exceeds the maximum
				  age for admission to the program, where such action is necessary to assist the
				  sponsor in achieving its affirmative action obligations.
(10) Such other action as to ensure that the
				  recruitment, selection, employment, and training of apprentices during
				  apprenticeship shall be without discrimination because of race, color,
				  religion, national origin, sex or non-job-related disability. This may include
				  general publication of apprenticeship opportunities and advantages in
				  advertisements, industry reports, articles, and the like; use of present
				  minority and female apprentices and journeypersons as recruiters; career
				  counseling; periodic auditing of affirmative action programs and activities;
				  and development of reasonable procedures between the sponsor and employers of
				  apprentices to ensure that equal employment opportunity is being granted
				  including reporting systems, on site reviews, briefing sessions, and the like.
				  The affirmative action program shall set forth the specific steps the sponsor
				  intends to take in the above areas under this section.