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2014 SESSION
14101447DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 40.1-28.9, 40.1-118 through 40.1-122, 40.1-124, and 40.1-125 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 40.1-28.9. Definition of terms.
As used in this article:
A. "Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or groups of persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee;
B. "Employee" includes any individual employed by an employer, except the following:
1. Any person employed as a farm laborer or farm employee;
2. Any person employed in domestic service or in or about a private home or in an eleemosynary institution primarily supported by public funds;
3. Any person engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organization where the relationship of employer-employee does not, in fact, exist, or where the services rendered to such organizations are on a voluntary basis;
4. Newsboys, shoe-shine boys, caddies on golf courses, babysitters, ushers, doormen, concession attendants and cashiers in theaters;
5. Traveling salesmen or outside salesmen working on a commission basis; taxicab drivers and operators;
6. Any person under the age of 18 in the employ of his father, mother or legal guardian;
7. Any person confined in any penal or corrective institution of the State or any of its political subdivisions or admitted to a state hospital or training center operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services;
8. Any person employed by a boys' and/or girls' summer camp;
9. Any person under the age of 16, regardless of by whom employed;
10. Any person who normally works and is paid based on the amount of work done;
11. (Reserved);
12. Any person whose employment is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 as amended;
13. Any person whose earning capacity is impaired by physical deficiency, mental illness, or intellectual disability;
14. Students and apprentices
participating in a bona fide educational or apprenticeship
program;
15. Any person employed by an employer who does not have four or more persons employed at any one time; provided that husbands, wives, sons, daughters and parents of the employer shall not be counted in determining the number of persons employed;
16. Any person who is less than 18 years of age and who is currently enrolled on a full-time basis in any secondary school, institution of higher education or trade school, provided the person is not employed more than 20 hours per week;
16A. Any person of any age who is currently enrolled on a full-time basis in any secondary school, institution of higher education or trade school and is in a work-study program or its equivalent at the institution at which he or she is enrolled as a student;
17. Any person who is less than 18 years of age and who is under the jurisdiction and direction of a juvenile and domestic relations district court.
C. "Wages" means legal tender of the United States or checks or drafts on banks negotiable into cash on demand or upon acceptance at full value; provided, wages may include the reasonable cost to the employer of furnishing meals and for lodging to an employee, if such board or lodging is customarily furnished by the employer, and used by the employee.
D. In determining the wage of a tipped employee, the amount paid such employee by his employer shall be deemed to be increased on account of tips by an amount determined by the employer, except in the case of an employee who establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the actual amount of tips received by him was less than the amount determined by the employer. In such case, the amount paid such employee by his employer shall be deemed to have been increased by such lesser amount.
§ 40.1-118. Authority of Council.
The Council may:
1. Determine standards for apprentice agreements, which standards shall not be lower than those prescribed by this chapter;
2. Appoint the secretary of the Apprenticeship Council to act as secretary of each state joint apprenticeship committee;
3. Approve, if
in their opinion approval is for the best interest of the apprentice, any
apprentice agreement which meets the standards established under this chapter;
4. Terminate or cancel any
apprentice agreement in accordance with the provisions of such agreement;
5. Keep a record of
apprentice agreements and their disposition;
6. Issue certificates of
journeymanship upon the completion of the apprenticeship;
7. Perform
such other duties as are necessary to carry out the intent of this chapter;
8.
Review decisions of local and state
joint apprenticeship committees adjusting relating to apprenticeship
disputes pursuant to subdivision C 3 of
§ 40.1-119 c 3;
9. Initiate deregistration
proceedings when the apprenticeship program is not conducted, operated and
administered in accordance with the registered provisions except that
deregistration proceedings for violation of equal opportunity requirements
shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia State Plan
for Equal Employment Opportunity in Apprenticeship;
4. Perform such other duties as are necessary to carry out the intent of this chapter; and
10. 5. Advise
the State Board for Community Colleges on policies to coordinate
apprenticeship-related instruction delivered by state and local public
education agencies.
§ 40.1-119. Local and state joint apprenticeship committees.
A. A local joint apprenticeship committee may be appointed
established 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 may be established 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.
§ 40.1-120. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates otherwise:
"Apprenticeable occupation" means a skilled trade occupation
having the following characteristics:
1. It is customarily learned in a practical way through a structured systematic program of on-the-job supervised work experience;
2. It is clearly identifiable and recognized throughout an industry;
3. It involves manual, mechanical or technical skills which require a minimum of 2,000 hours of on-the-job work experience of new apprenticeable trades not otherwise established; and
4. It requires related instruction to supplement the on-the-job work experience.
"Apprentice" means a person at least sixteen 16
years of age who is covered by a written agreement with an employer and
approved by the Apprenticeship Council Commissioner. The agreement
shall provide for not less than 2,000 hours of reasonably continuous employment in new apprenticeable trades not otherwise
established for such person, for his participation in an
approved schedule of work experience through employment, and for the amount of
related instruction required in the craft or trade occupation.
"Employer" means any person or organization employing
a registered apprentice who is, whether or not such person
or organization is a party to an apprenticeship agreement
with a sponsor.
"Joint apprenticeship committee" means a group equally representative of management and labor representatives which works under a bargaining agreement and is established to carry out the administration of an apprenticeship training program.
"Sponsor" means either an individual employer, a group of employers, or an association or organization operating an apprenticeship program, and in whose name the program is registered.
§ 40.1-121. Requisites of apprentice agreement.
Every apprentice agreement entered into under this chapter shall contain:
1. The names, signatures, and addresses of the contracting parties;
2. The date of birth of the apprentice;
3. The contact information of the Program Sponsor and the Division of Registered Apprenticeship;
4. A
statement of the trade, craft, occupation or business which that
the apprentice is to be taught, and the
time at which the apprenticeship will begin and end;
4. 5. A
statement showing the number of hours to be spent by the apprentice in work and
the number of hours to be spent in related or supplemental instruction;
5. 6. A
statement setting forth a schedule of the processes in the trade occupation or industry
division in which the apprentice is to be taught and the approximate time to be
spent at each process;
6. 7. A
statement of the graduated scale of wages to be paid the apprentice and whether
the required schooltime related
instruction shall be compensated;
7. 8. A
statement providing for a period of probation of not less than 500 hours of
employment and instruction extending over not less than four months, during
which time the apprentice agreement shall be terminated by the Council
Commissioner at the request in writing of either party, and
providing that after such probationary period the apprentice agreement may be
terminated by the Council Commissioner by mutual
agreement of all parties thereto, or cancelled by the Council Commissioner for good and
sufficient reason;
9. A reference incorporating as part of the agreement the standards of the apprenticeship program as they exist on the date of the agreement and as they may be amended during the period of the agreement;
10. A statement that the apprentice will be accorded equal opportunity in all phases of apprenticeship employment and training without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex;
11. Contact information, including name, address, phone number, and email if appropriate, of the appropriate authority designated under the program to receive, process, and make disposition of controversies or differences arising out of the apprenticeship agreement when the controversies or differences cannot be adjusted locally or resolved in accordance with the established procedure or applicable collective bargaining provisions;
8. 12. A
provision that an employer who is unable to fulfill his obligation under the apprentice
agreement may, with the approval of the Council
Commissioner, transfer such contract to any
other employer if (i) the apprentice consents, (ii) such other employer agrees
to assume the obligations of the apprentice agreement, and (iii) the transfer
is reported to the registration agency within thirty 30 days of the transfer; and
9. 13. Such
additional terms and conditions as may be prescribed or approved by the Council
Commissioner not inconsistent with the provisions of this
chapter.
§ 40.1-122. Approval of agreement by Council; signing.
No apprentice agreement under this chapter shall be effective
until approved by the Council Commissioner. Every apprentice
agreement shall be signed by the employer, or by an association of employers or
an organization of employees as provided in § 40.1-124, and by the apprentice,
and, if the apprentice is a minor, by the minor's father or mother, provided,
that if both father and mother be dead or legally incapable of giving consent
or have abandoned their children, then by the guardian of the minor.
§ 40.1-124. Agreement signed by organization of employers or of employees.
For the purpose of providing greater diversity of training or
continuity of employment, any apprentice agreement made under this chapter may
in the discretion of the Council Commissioner be signed by an
association of employers or an organization of employees instead of by an
individual employer. In such a case the apprentice agreement shall expressly
provide that the association of employers or organization of employees does not
assume the obligation of an employer but agrees to use its best endeavors to
procure employment and training for such apprentice with one or more employers
who will accept full responsibility, as herein provided, for all the terms and
conditions of employment and training set forth in the agreement between the
apprentice and employer association or employee organization during the period
of each such employment. The apprentice agreement in such a case shall also expressly
provide for the transfer of the apprentice, subject to the approval of the Council
Commissioner, to such employer or employers as shall sign a
written agreement with the apprentice, and if the apprentice is a minor with
his parent or guardian, as specified in § 40.1-122, contracting to employ the
apprentice for the whole or a definite part of the total period of
apprenticeship under the terms and conditions of employment and training set
forth in the agreement entered into between the apprentice and the employer
association or employee organization.
§ 40.1-125. Commissioner to administer chapter.
A. The Commissioner, with the advice and guidance of the Council, shall be responsible for administering the provisions of this chapter.
B. The Commissioner shall:
1. Approve, if approval is in the best interests of the apprentice, any apprenticeship agreement that meets the standards established under this chapter;
2. Terminate or cancel any apprenticeship agreement in accordance with the provisions of such agreement;
3. Keep a record of apprenticeship agreements and their disposition;
4. Issue certificates of completion upon the completion of the apprenticeship;
5. Initiate deregistration proceedings when an apprenticeship program is not conducted, operated, and administered in accordance with the registered provisions, except that deregistration proceedings for violation of equal opportunity requirements shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia State Plan for Equal Employment Opportunity in Apprenticeship; and
6. Perform such other duties as are necessary to carry out the intent of this chapter.