The Labor Commissioner, with the advice and guidance of the council, shall formulate work training standards which will ensure necessary safeguards for the welfare of apprentices and a full craft experience in any skill, in order to provide equal opportunities to all, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age or national origin, and to provide training, employment and upgrading opportunities for disadvantaged workers to acquire a comprehensive skilled work experience and to extend the application of such standards of skill training by inclusion thereof in apprenticeship agreements, and shall bring together representatives of management and labor for the development of training programs and terms of apprenticeship incidental thereto and cooperate with state and federal agencies similarly interested in furtherance of training requirements in keeping with established and new processes of Connecticut industries. The Labor Commissioner shall publish information relating to existing and proposed work standards of apprenticeship, hold area conferences throughout the state for the purpose of promoting interest in skilled trades training and appoint such advisory committees as may be deemed necessary to evaluate the skilled manpower requirements of Connecticut in order to cope with any new technological changes in industry.
(1959, P.A. 390, S. 4; 1969, P.A. 743, S. 1; P.A. 11-55, S. 15.)
History: 1969 act deleted reference to cooperative effort of representatives of industry, labor and education in formulation of standards, required that standards provide equal opportunities “to all, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, age or national origin” and that they provide training, employment and upgrading opportunities for disadvantaged workers, and made publication of information re apprenticeship standards, holding of conferences, etc. mandatory rather than optional, substituting “shall” for “may”; Sec. 31-51d transferred to Sec. 31-22p in 2005; P.A. 11-55 prohibited discrimination on basis of gender identity or expression.
Annotation to former section 31-51d:
Cited. 243 C. 66.
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