1. Investment system. The Maine Apprenticeship Program shall partner with the Maine Workforce Investment System under chapter 33 to use registered apprenticeship as a key talent development approach that serves both workforce investment system participants and industry in the State.

[PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW).]

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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3211

  • Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Apprentice: means a person who is at least 16 years of age, except when a higher minimum age standard of 18 years of age is otherwise fixed by law or a sponsor, who is employed to learn an apprenticeable occupation that is approved by the department and who is registered with the Maine Apprenticeship Program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Apprenticeship agreement: means a written agreement between an apprentice and a sponsor or employer that contains the terms and conditions of the employment and training of the apprentice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Apprenticeship program: means a plan containing all terms and conditions for the qualification, recruitment, selection, employment and training of apprentices, including such matters as the requirement for an apprenticeship agreement, a schedule of work experience outlining the skills to be learned on the job, a schedule of related instruction courses necessary to supplement the on-the-job learning and a schedule of progressively increasing wages to be paid to an apprentice consistent with the skill proficiencies achieved and leading toward a journeyman wage rate. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Department: means the Department of Labor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Journeyman: includes a mentor, technician, specialist or other skilled worker who has documented sufficient skills and knowledge of an occupation, either through formal apprenticeship or through practical on-the-job experience and formal training, as determined by the sponsor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Maine Apprenticeship Council: means the Maine Apprenticeship Council under section 3209. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Maine Apprenticeship Program: means the Maine Apprenticeship Program established in section 3202. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Registered apprenticeship: means an apprenticeship program registered with the Maine Apprenticeship Program in accordance with Title 26, chapter 37. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Related instruction: means an organized and systematic form of instruction designed to provide an apprentice with the knowledge of the theoretical and technical subjects related to the apprentice's occupation and given in a classroom, through occupational or industrial courses or by correspondence courses of equivalent value, electronic media or other forms of self-study approved by the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Sponsor: means a person, association, apprenticeship committee or organization operating an apprenticeship program and in whose name the apprenticeship program is or is to be registered or approved. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Technical assistance: means guidance provided by the Bureau of Employment Services within the department in the development, revision, amendment or processing of a potential or current sponsor's standards of apprenticeship or apprenticeship agreements or advice or consultation provided by the bureau to a sponsor to further compliance with or remedy nonconformance to state and federal law, regulation or rule. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • Total package value: means the hourly sum of the following:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3201
  • United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • 2. Economic development. The Maine Apprenticeship Program shall cooperate with the Department of Economic and Community Development in matters relating to workforce and economic development.

    [PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW).]

    3. Outreach. The Maine Apprenticeship Program shall cooperate, consult and coordinate with workforce development entities that serve individuals seeking employment.

    [PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW).]

    4. Technical assistance. The Maine Apprenticeship Program may provide sponsors with technical assistance.

    [PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW).]

    5. Federal regulations. The Maine Apprenticeship Program shall ensure that all apprenticeship programs established under this chapter conform to 29 Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 29 and 30 and any applicable regulations of the United States Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship.

    [PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW).]

    6. Education. The Maine Apprenticeship Program shall cooperate with the Department of Education, local school authorities such as adult education and career and technical education centers and other groups in organizing and establishing related instruction for apprentices employed under approved apprenticeship agreements.
    A. A public educational institution or sponsor may provide related instruction according to established policies. As funds permit, the Department of Labor shall underwrite 50% of tuition costs for apprentices in good standing at public educational institutions and provide training cost assistance to sponsor groups in accordance with sponsor policies. To ensure that adequate funds are available for related instruction, the Maine Apprenticeship Program shall establish a biennial plan, including projected apprenticeship enrollments and a subsequent budget request. [PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW).]
    B. The Maine Apprenticeship Program shall assist the Department of Education, the State’s community colleges, local school authorities such as adult education and career and technical education centers and other groups in promoting, developing and establishing student preapprenticeship programs and adult preapprenticeship programs if the community colleges, local school authorities and other groups wish to do so. A participant who successfully completes a preapprenticeship program meets the qualifying standards of a registered apprenticeship program. [PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW).]

    [PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW).]

    7. Funding. The Maine Apprenticeship Program shall apply at least 75% of program funding used for reimbursement of direct training costs toward apprenticeship programs in which the apprentice starting wage is at least 1.25 times the rate of the minimum wage established in section 664 and the ending wage, upon completion of the apprenticeship agreement, is at least 1.5 times the rate of the minimum wage.

    [PL 2021, c. 147, §1 (NEW).]

    8. Monetary incentive program; historically underrepresented populations. To the extent that funding is available, the Maine Apprenticeship Council shall, in coordination with the department, establish a financial incentive program for registered apprenticeships to recruit historically underrepresented populations. No more than 50% of the funds granted under this program may be allocated to the registered apprenticeship sponsor, and the remaining 50% of the funds must be reserved for stipends for registered apprentices who meet the criteria established under this program.

    [PL 2023, c. 318, §11 (NEW).]

    9. Department, Maine Apprenticeship Council to establish criteria for funding registered apprenticeships. The Maine Apprenticeship Council shall, in coordination with the department, establish criteria for funding registered apprenticeship programs. The criteria must establish benchmarks and consider the total package value that a registered apprentice graduate earns upon transitioning to journeyman status.

    [PL 2023, c. 318, §12 (NEW).]

    SECTION HISTORY

    PL 2011, c. 491, §13 (NEW). PL 2021, c. 147, §1 (AMD). PL 2023, c. 318, §§11, 12 (AMD).