§ 40.1-119. Local and state joint apprenticeship committees
A. A local joint apprenticeship committee may be appointed in any trade or group of trades in a city or trade area, by the Apprenticeship Council, whenever the apprentice training needs of such trade or group of trades justify such establishment. Sponsors not signatory to a bargaining agreement may operate an individual apprenticeship program or, at the option and under guidelines prescribed by a joint committee, participate in an apprenticeship program operated by a joint apprenticeship committee.
B. When two or more local joint apprenticeship committees have been established in the state for a trade or group of trades or at the request of any trade or group of trades, the Apprenticeship Council may appoint a state apprenticeship committee for such trade or group of trades. Such local and state joint apprenticeship committees shall be composed of an equal number of employer and employee representatives chosen from names submitted by the respective employer and employee organizations in such trade or group of trades. In a trade or group of trades in which there is no bona fide employer or employee organization, the committee shall be appointed from persons known to represent the interests of employers and of employees respectively.
C. The functions of a local joint apprenticeship committee shall be:
1. To cooperate with school authorities in regard to the education of apprentices;
2. In accordance with standards established by the Apprenticeship Council, to establish local standards of apprenticeship regarding schedule of operations, application of wage rates, working conditions for apprentices, and the number of apprentices which shall be employed locally in the trade; and
3. To adjust apprenticeship disputes.
D. The functions of a state trade apprenticeship committee shall be to assist in an advisory capacity in the development of statewide standards of apprenticeship and in the development of local standards and local committees.
(Code 1950, § 40-125; 1970, c. 321; 1990, c. 614.)
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