281—21.73 (260C) Definitions.
“Apprentice” shall mean a worker at least 16 years of age, except where a higher minimum age standard is otherwise fixed by law, who is employed to learn a skilled trade or occupation under the standards of apprenticeship.
“Apprenticeable occupation” is a skilled trade which possesses all of the following characteristics:
	  1. 	 It is customarily learned in a practical way through a structured, systematic program of on-the-job, supervised training.
	  2. 	 It is clearly identified and commonly recognized throughout an industry.
	  3. 	 It involves manual, mechanical or technical skills and knowledge which require a minimum of 2,000 hours of on-the-job work experience.
	  4. 	 It requires related instruction to supplement on-the-job training.
“Apprenticeship agreement” shall mean a written agreement between an apprentice and the apprentice’s employer, or an apprenticeship committee acting as the agent for the employer(s). The agreement contains the terms and conditions of the employment and training of the apprentice.
“Apprenticeship committee” shall mean those persons designated by the sponsor to act for it in the administration of the program. A committee may be “joint,” i.e., composed of an equal number of representatives of the employer(s) and of the employees represented by a bona fide collective bargaining agent(s), and is established to conduct, operate, or administer an apprenticeship program and enter into apprenticeship agreements with apprentices. A committee may be “unilateral” or “nonjoint” and shall mean a program sponsor in which a bona fide collective bargaining agent is not a participant.
“Apprenticeship program” shall mean a plan containing all terms and conditions for the qualification, recruitment, selection, employment and training of apprentices, including such matters as the requirement for a written apprenticeship agreement.
“Bureau” shall mean the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.
“Cancellation” shall mean the termination of the registration or approval status of a program at the request of the sponsor or termination of an apprenticeship agreement at the request of the apprentice.
“Certification” shall mean written approval by the Bureau of: (1) a set of apprenticeship standards developed by a national committee or organization, joint or unilateral, for policy or guidelines used by local affiliates, as substantially conforming to the standards of apprenticeship; or (2) an individual as eligible for probationary employment as an apprentice under a registered apprenticeship program.
“Employer” shall mean any person or organization employing an apprentice whether or not such person or organization is a party to an apprenticeship agreement with the apprentice.
“Registration agency” shall mean the Bureau.
“Registration of an apprenticeship agreement” shall mean the acceptance and recording thereof by the Bureau as evidence of the participation of the apprentice in a particular registered apprenticeship program.
“Related instruction” shall mean an organized and systematic form of instruction designed to provide the apprentice with knowledge of the theoretical and technical subjects related to the trade or occupation.
“Sponsor” shall mean any person, association, committee or organization operating an apprenticeship program and in whose name the program is (or is to be) registered or approved.