Section 3073.1 Of Chapter 4. Apprenticeship From California Labor Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 4.
3073.1
. (a) The division shall audit apprenticeship programs to
ensure that the program audited is complying with its standards, that
all on-the-job training is supervised by journeymen, that all
related and supplemental instruction required by the apprenticeship
standards is being provided, that all work processes in the
apprenticeship standards are being covered, and that graduates have
completed the apprenticeship program's requirements. The division
shall examine each apprenticeship program to determine whether
apprentices are graduating from the program on schedule or dropping
out and to determine whether graduates of the program have obtained
employment as journeymen. During the audit, the division shall
attempt to contact a statistically valid sample of apprentices who
have dropped out of the program prior to completion to determine the
apprentices' reasons for leaving the program. Every apprenticeship
program sponsor shall have a duty to cooperate with the division in
conducting an audit.
(b) Audit reports shall be presented to the California
Apprenticeship Council and shall be made public, except that the
division shall not make public information that would infringe on the
privacy of individual apprentices. The division shall recommend
remedial action to correct deficiencies recognized in the audit
report, and the failure to follow division recommendations or to
correct deficiencies within a reasonable period of time shall be
grounds for withdrawing state approval of a program. Nothing shall
prevent the division from conducting more frequent or random audits
of apprenticeship programs where deficiencies have been identified.
(c) The division shall give priority in conducting audits to
programs that have been identified as having deficiencies. The
division may conduct simplified audits for programs with fewer than
five registered apprentices.
(d) For new and newly expanded building and construction trades
apprenticeship programs, the division shall audit each program one
year after approval of the creation or expansion of the program.
(e) If the division finds evidence that information provided to it
by a building and construction trades apprenticeship program has
been purposefully misstated, the division shall immediately
investigate and determine whether an audit of the program is
necessary. The division shall report its investigatory findings to
the California Apprenticeship Council and make them available to the
public, except that the division shall not make public information
that would infringe upon the privacy of individual apprentices.
(f) If the division determines that a building and construction
trades apprenticeship program has been the subject of two or more
meritorious complaints that concern the recruitment, training, or
education of apprentices within a five-year period, the division
shall schedule the program for an audit within three months of the
determination.
(g) If the division determines that a building and construction
trades apprenticeship program that has had at least two graduating
classes has an annual apprentice completion rate below 50 percent of
the average completion rate for the applicable trade, the division
shall schedule the program for an audit within three months of the
determination.