(1) A training agent may not pay an apprentice at a rate less than that obtained by applying the schedule, set forth in the applicable standards, at the apprentice’s level of apprenticeship, to the journeyman hourly rate of wage currently in effect for journeymen in the occupation for which the apprentice is being trained, as determined by the appropriate local joint committee.
(2) The journeyman hourly wage rate shall be the average hourly wage currently being paid by the training agents participating in a program to their skilled workers, that is, to those employees with demonstrated knowledge, experience and proficiency in that trade or occupation who are currently performing the type of work for which the apprentice is to be trained. Upon receipt of a committee’s determination of its current journeyman hourly rate of wage, the State Director of Apprenticeship and Training shall cause notice of the determination to be promptly mailed to all apprentices and training agents participating in the program. The determination shall be in effect from the date set forth in the determination or, lacking such date, from the first of the month following the mailing of the determination. However, neither the wage determination nor the effective date alters the terms or effect of an existing collective bargaining agreement.
(3) If a higher journeyman hourly wage rate is prescribed by federal or state law for work on a particular project, the higher rate so established is controlling for purposes of determining apprentice wages applicable to that particular project.
(4) Nothing stated in ORS 660.002 to 660.210 shall be construed to supersede the minimum wage or overtime provisions of ORS chapters 652 and 653, or the rules adopted under ORS chapter 652 or 653. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, the entry wage (that wage derived by applying the lowest percentage on the schedule to the current journeyman hourly wage rate) may not be less than the federal or state minimum wage rate, whichever is higher.
(5) The State Apprenticeship and Training Council may make such exceptions to the apprentice wage schedule or journeyman hourly wage rate, and to the minimum numeric ratio of journeymen to apprentices, as it deems necessary or advisable to further the operation of apprenticeship and training programs in Department of Corrections institutions. [1981 c.764 §10; 1987 c.320 §243; 2007 c.620 §9]
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