Pennsylvania Code
Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Part IV - Apprenticeship and Training Council
Chapter 81 - EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLANS
Section 81.25 - Goals and timetables-establishment, attainment

Goals and timetables shall be established on the basis of an analysis by the sponsor of its underutilization of minorities and women and its entire affirmative action program. A single goal for minorities and a separate single goal for women is acceptable unless a particular group is employed in a substantially disparate manner, in which case separate goals shall be established for such group. Such separate goals would be required, for example, if a specific minority group of women were underutilized even though the sponsor had achieved its standards for women generally. In establishing the goals, the sponsor should consider the results which could be reasonably expected from its good faith efforts to make its overall affirmative action program work. Compliance with these requirements shall be determined by whether the sponsor has met its goals within its timetable, or failing that, whether it had made good faith efforts to meet its goals and timetables. Its "good faith efforts" will be judged by whether it is following its affirmative action program and attempting to make it work, including evaluation and changes in its program where necessary to obtain the maximum effectiveness toward the attainment of its goals; however, in order to deal fairly with program sponsors and with women who are entitled to protection under the goals and timetables requirements, during the first 12 months after the effective date of this chapter, the program sponsor would generally be expected to set a goal for women for the entering-year class at a rate which is not less than 50% of the proportion women comprise of the work force in the program sponsor's labor market area and to set a percentage goal for women in each class beyond the entering class which is not less than the participation rate of women currently in the preceding class. At the end of the first 12 months after the effective date of this chapter, sponsors are expected to make appropriate adjustments in goal levels. In establishing the goals, the sponsor should consider the results which could be reasonably expected from its good faith efforts to make its overall affirmative action program work. Compliance with these requirements will be determined by whether the sponsor has met its goals within its timetable or, failing that, whether it had made good faith efforts to meet its goals and timetables. Its "good faith efforts" will be judged by whether it is following its affirmative action program and attempting to make it work, including evaluation and changes in its program where necessary to obtain the maximum effectiveness toward the attainment of its goals.

This section cited in 34 Pa. Code § 81.33 (relating to random selection from pool of eligible applicants); and 34 Pa. Code § 81.34 (relating to selection from pool of current employes).