OAR 839-011-0406: Youth Apprenticeship — Ratio and Supervision

(1) Committees shall adopt the same ratio of youth apprentices to journey persons as exists for adult apprenticeship programs, except that: (a) Youth apprentices shall not be included in the count as part of the adult apprentices, but shall be counted separately and concurrently; (b) A training agent is permitted to participate in the youth apprenticeship program without concurrently training/hiring adult apprentices; and (c) At no time shall the total number of youth apprentices and adult apprentices exceed the number of journey persons for any job or training agent. (2) The ratio shall be job and/or training agent specific in application.