APPRENTICES

Where a plan of apprenticeship training has been declared to apply in respect of a trade, a person between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years who has not completed training as an apprentice shall not be employed in that trade for more than a total of three months in any one year between those ages unless the Apprenticeship Board issues a letter of authorization authorizing the person to be so employed or unless the person enters into a contract of apprenticeship.

All Apprentices shall become indentured as soon as possible and the document of indenture shall not conflict in any way with the provisions of this new Agreement. Employers shall not start or indenture any new Apprentice while there are any apprentices of that employer that are unemployed. Next consideration will be given to other Local Union 512 apprentices that are unemployed at the time.

After the probationary period of an apprentice, the apprentice shall not be dismissed except for just cause. After such period, apprentices shall not leave their employer during the rest of their term of apprenticeship except for just cause.

Second and third year apprentices shall work under direct supervision of a Journeyperson. No fourth year apprentice shall supervise another apprentice. If any employer lays offa third or fourth year apprentice, the employee shall not be replaced by a first or second year apprentice while there are third and fourth year apprentices unemployed. Employers shall hire apprentices available at the time of request.

Apprentices shall be permitted to execute work outside the shop which they are capable of performing in order to develop their skills.

All apprentices shall have a log book from the Department of Labour showing the amount of hours worked at the trade.

Any apprentice who failed to report to Trade School after the second notification for In-Block training will be dropped from the apprenticeship Program and from the Union. Also, apprentices who fail to complete In-Block Training will be ineligible for apprenticeship raises. CLRA and Sheet Metal Local 512 Collective Agreement 2022-2027 Page 18

Apprentices shall not be paid less than the following percentages of a Journeyperson's rate: First and Second Year 60% Third Year 75% Fourth Year 85% Full Journeyperson's Rate thereafter.

The Employer will endeavour where practical and economically feasible to expose Apprentices to Shop Time along with Field Time in order to develop a well versed Journeyperson.