Pennsylvania Code
Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Part IV - Apprenticeship and Training Council
Chapter 81 - EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS
SELECTION OF APPRENTICES
Section 81.32 - Selection on basis of rank from pool of eligible applicants

(1) Selection. A sponsor may select apprentices from a pool of eligible applicants on the basis of the rank order of scores of applicants on one or more qualification standards where there is a significant statistical and practical relationship between rank order of scores and performance in the apprenticeship program. In demonstrating such relationship, the sponsor shall follow the procedures set forth in the United States Department of Labor Order of September 9, 1968 (33 FR 14392, September 24, 1968) covering the validation of employment tests of contractors and subcontractors subject to the provision of Executive Order 11246, as amended.

(2) Creation of pool of eligibles. A pool of eligibles shall be created from applicants who meet the qualifications of minimum legal working age or from applicants who meet qualification standards in addition to minimum legal working age and the sponsor's minimum physical requirements; provided that any additional qualification standards conform with the following requirements:

(3) Oral interviews. Oral interviews shall not be used as a qualification standard for admission into an eligibility pool; however, once an applicant is placed in the eligibility pool, and before he is selected for apprenticeship from the pool, the applicant may be required to submit to an oral interview. Oral interviews shall be limited only to such objective questions as may be required to determine the fitness of applicants to enter the apprenticeship program, but shall not include questions relating to qualifications previously determined in gaining entrance to the eligibility pool. When an oral interview is used, each interviewer shall record his questions, the general nature of answers, and shall prepare a summary of any conclusions. Applicants rejected from the pool of eligibles on the basis of an oral interview shall be given a written statement of such rejection, the reasons therefor, and the appeal rights available to the applicant.

(4) Notification of applicants. All applicants who meet the requirements for admission shall be notified and placed in the eligibility pool. The program sponsor shall give each rejected applicant notice of his rejection including the reasons for his rejection, the requirements for admission to the pool of eligibles, and the appeal rights available to the applicant.

(5) Goals and timetable. The sponsor shall establish, when required, percentage goals and timetables for the admission of minorities and women-minority and nonminority-to the pool of eligibles in accordance with the provisions of §§ 81.23-81.25 (relating to affirmative action plans). A sponsor shall be deemed to be in compliance with this paragraph if it meets its goals or timetables or if it makes a good faith effort to meet these goals and timetables. In the event of the failure of the sponsor to meet its goals and timetables, it shall be given an opportunity to demonstrate that it has made every good faith effort to meet its commitments. All the actions of the sponsor shall be reviewed and evaluated in determining whether such good faith efforts have been made.