California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 2 - California Apprenticeship Council
Subchapter 1 - Apprenticeship
Article 2 - Definitions
Section 205 - Definitions

(a) "Journeyman," "journeyperson," and "journeyworker" and "journey level worker" mean a person who has either

(b) "Instructor" means a person who has either

(c) An "Apprenticeable Occupation" is one which requires independent judgment and the application of manual, mechanical, technical, or professional skills and is best learned through an organized system of on-the-job training together with related and supplemental instruction. Each "Apprenticeable Occupation" is defined by the work processes contained in the approved apprenticeship standards under which apprentices are training.

(d) "Registration of an Apprentice Agreement" means the acceptance and recording thereof by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards which serves as evidence of the participation of the apprentice in a specific apprenticeship program.

(e) "Apprenticeship Program" means a comprehensive plan containing, among other things, apprenticeship program standards, committee rules and regulations, related and supplemental instruction course outlines and policy statements for the effective administration of that apprenticeable occupation.

(f) "Apprenticeship Program Standards" means that written document containing among other things all the terms and conditions for the qualification, recruitment, selection, employment and training, working conditions, wages, employee benefits, and other compensation for apprentices and all other provisions and statements including attachments as required by the Labor Code and this Chapter which, when approved by the Chief DAS, shall constitute registration of such, and authority to conduct that program of apprenticeship in the State of California.

(g) "Apprenticeship Program Sponsor" means a joint apprenticeship committee, a unilateral labor or management committee, or an individual employer program.

(h) "Related and Supplemental Instruction" means an organized and systematic form of instruction designed to provide the apprentice with knowledge including the theoretical and technical subjects related and supplemental to the skill(s) involved.

(i) "Competent Evidence" as used in Section 224 means a transcript or abstract of the training records required to be maintained pursuant to Section 212(b)(7), or an attestation by the apprentice program sponsor stating that all training has been fully completed, on forms to be provided by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, demonstrating that the apprenticeship program has been fully complete, certified by the apprenticeship program sponsor and endorsed by a representative of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.

(j) An "Interested Party" for the purpose of application for approval of an apprenticeship program, means an employer, employer organization or association, a group of employers, employer associations or organizations, an employee association or organization, or employee representatives, a group of employee representatives, associations or organizations, labor and/or management groups or any combination thereof whose interest may be affected by the apprenticeship program if approved.

(k) "Maintenance" is defined as routine, recurring and usual work for the preservation, protection and keeping of any facility for its intended purposes in a safe and continually usable condition.

(l) The term "Chief DAS" means the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.

(m) "Employed as an apprentice" in the building and construction trades industry for the purpose of Labor Code Section 3080.5 means employment pursuant to the approved standards of apprenticeship of the Program, under the supervision of journeyworker(s), where the apprentice is receiving at least the minimum wage applicable to the apprentice's period of apprenticeship as provided for in this chapter.

(n) "Geographic Area of Operation" of an apprenticeship program means the geographic area in which the program regularly operates and trains apprentices.

(o) "Acceptable electronic format" means either of the following:

(p) "Work Process" is a skill or task, stated in program's apprenticeship standards, in which the apprentice will receive supervised work experience and training on the job.

(q) "Registered Apprentice" means a person who is training under and in accordance with apprenticeship standards that have been approved by the Chief DAS, and who is party to an apprentice agreement that has been accepted by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.