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PUBLIC LAW 550--JULY 16, 1952

PART VI—^APPROVAL OF COURSES OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING APPRENTICE O R OTHER TRAINING ON THE JOB

SEC. 251. (a) Apprentice or other training on the job shall consist of courses offered by training establishments whenever such courses of training are furnished in accordance with the provisions of this section. Any training establishment desiring to furnish a course of apprentice or other training on the job shall submit to the appropriate State approving agency a written application setting forth the course of training for each job for which an eligible veteran is to be trained. The written application covering the course of training shall include the following: (1) Title and description of the specific job objective for which the eligible veteran is to be trained; (2) The length of the training period; (3) A schedule listing various operations for major kinds of work or tasks to be learned and showing for each, job operations or work, tasks to be performed, and the approximate length of time to be spent on each operation or task; (4) The wage or salary to be paid at the beginning of the course of training, at each successive step in the course, and at the completion of training; (5) The entrance wage or salary paid by the establishment to employees already trained in the kind of work for which the veteran is to be trained; and (6) The number of hours of supplemental related instruction required. (b) The appropriate State approving agency may approve a course of apprentice or other training on the job specified in an application submitted by a training establishment in accordance with subsection (a) if such training establishment is found upon investigation to have met the following criteria: (1) The training content of the course is adequate to qualify the eligible veteran for appointment to the job for which he is to be trained. (2) There is reasonable certainty that the job for which the eligible veteran is to be trained will be available to him at the end of the training period. (3) The job is one in which progression and appointment to the next higher classification are based upon skills learned through organized training on the job and not on such factors as length of service and normal turn-over. (4) The wages to be paid the eligible veteran for each successive period of training are not less than those customarily paid in the training establishment and in the community to a learner in the same job who is not a veteran. (5) The job customarily requires a period of training of not less than three months and not more than two years of full-time training, except that this provision shall not apply to apprentice training. (6) The length of the training period is no longer than that customarily required by the training establishment and other training establishments in the community to provide an eligible veteran with the required skills, arrange for the acquiring of job knowledge, technical information, and other facts which the eligible veteran will need to learn in order to become competent on the job for which he is being trained.

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