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EXHIBIT "C" <br />Local Assistance Procedures Manual Exhibit 12-G <br />Required Federal -Aid Contract Language <br />3. Training starting date for each classification <br />The prime contractor shall obtain the City/County of approval for this submitted <br />information before the prime contractor starts work. The City/County of credits the <br />prime contractor for each apprentice or trainee the prime contractor employs on the job who is currently enrolled <br />or becomes enrolled in an approved program. <br />The primary objective of this section is to train and upgrade minorities and women toward journeyman status. <br />The prime contractor shall make every effort to enroll minority and women apprentices or trainees, such as <br />conducting systematic and direct recruitment through public and private sources likely to yield minority and <br />women apprentices or trainees, to the extent they are available within a reasonable recruitment area and show <br />that they have made the efforts. In making these efforts, the prime contractor shall not discriminate against any <br />applicant for training. <br />The prime contractor shall not employ as an apprentice or trainee an employee: <br />1. In any classification in which the employee has successfully completed a training course leading to <br />journeyman status or in which the employee has been employed as a journeyman <br />2. Who is not registered in a program approved by the US Department of Labor, Bureau of <br />Apprenticeship and Training <br />The prime contractor shall ask the employee if the employee has successfully completed a training course <br />leading to journeyman status or has been employed as a journeyman. The prime contractor's records must show <br />the employee's answers to the questions. <br />In the training program, the prime contractor shall establish the minimum length and training type for each <br />classification. The City/County of and FHWA approves a program if one of the following is met: <br />1. It is calculated to: <br />• Meet the your equal employment opportunity responsibilities <br />• Qualify the average apprentice or trainee for journeyman status in the classification involved by <br />the end of the training period <br />2. It is registered with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, and it is <br />administered in a way consistent with the equal employment responsibilities of Federal -aid highway <br />construction contracts <br />The prime contractor shall obtain the State's approval for their training program before they start work involving <br />the classification covered by the program. <br />The prime contractor shall provide training in the construction crafts, not in clerk -typist or secretarial -type <br />positions. Training is allowed in lower level management positions such as office engineers, estimators, and <br />timekeepers if the training is oriented toward construction applications. Training is allowed in the laborer <br />classification if significant and meaningful training is provided and approved by the division office. Off -site <br />training is allowed if the training is an integral part of an approved training program and does not make up a <br />significant part of the overall training. <br />The City/County of reimburses the prime contractor 80 cents per hour of training <br />given an employee on thiscontract under an approved training program: <br />1. For on -site training <br />2. For off -site training if the apprentice or trainee is currently employed on a Federal -aid project and <br />prime contractor does at least one of the following: <br />a. Contribute to the cost of the training <br />b. Provide the instruction to the apprentice or trainee <br />c. Pay the apprentice's or trainee's wages during the off -site training period <br />3. If the prime contractor complies with this section. <br />Each apprentice or trainee must: <br />1. Begin training on the project as soon as feasible after the start of work involving the apprentice's or <br />trainee's skill <br />2. Remain on the project as long as training opportunities exist in the apprentice's or trainee's work <br />classification or until the apprentice or trainee has completed the training program <br />Page 27 of 28 <br />August 2022 <br />