Opinion ID: 748840
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Apprenticeship Status of Pierre Jacquay

Text: 7 This incident involved a problem regarding the apprenticeship status of Pierre Jacquay, one of the first employees of VVM and a close personal friend of Van Vlerah. As part of the apprenticeship program, Jacquay was required to submit to the Joint Apprentice Committee (JAC) employer evaluations concerning the on-the-job training component of his apprenticeship. Although Jacquay submitted these evaluations in a timely fashion, he violated JAC rules by signing the evaluations himself. When he discovered that Jacquay had been signing his own evaluation forms, Leonard LaBundy, the director of the JAC, called in Jacquay for a meeting and informed him that the absence of proper documentation could affect Jacquay's eligibility to be referred for work to VVM or to any other employer. A few days after this meeting, on September 14, 1993, Van Vlerah called LaBundy and asked why the JAC was trying to screw over Jacquay. Van Vlerah Mech., Inc., 1996 WL 41274, at  5. Later in that conversation, Van Vlerah told LaBundy that if the contractors were going to screw over Pierre, he would have to consider going nonunion. Id.