Definitions

(a) "Commissioner" means the principal administrator directing and controlling all of the labor department activities including the job service program within the employment security division and the apprentice program within the office of job training and skill development. (b) "Department" means the state of Connecticut labor department. Those units that will be primarily responsible will be the labor department's office of job training and skill development, which administers the apprenticeship program, the Connecticut state apprenticeship council and the apprentice information centers. (c) "Council" means the nine member Connecticut state apprenticeship council appointed by the governor with equal representation from labor, management and the public, including the deputy commissioner, who advise and recommend to the commissioner and the department standards of apprenticeship and policies of administration. (d) "Apprenticeship program" shall mean a plan containing all terms and conditions for the qualification, recruitment, selection, employment and training of apprentices as defined by the commissioner's regulation for apprenticeship programs. (e) "Sponsor" shall mean any duly established firm, association, committee, organization or corporation permanently located within the state of Connecticut with recognized capability to operate an apprenticeship program and in whose name the program is registered and approved. (f) "Employer" shall mean any establishment which is party to an apprenticeship program employing an apprentice whether or not such establishment is a party to an apprenticeship agreement with the apprentice. (g) "CHRO" shall mean the Connecticut commission on human rights and opportunities and its designated representatives administering fair employment practices under chapter 814 (c) of the Connecticut General Statutes, human rights and opportunities. (h) "Race/ethnic and gender designations" (1) White (not of Hispanic origin) a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa or the Middle East. (2) Minority (a) Black (not of Hispanic origin): a person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. (b) Hispanic: a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South America or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. (c) Asian or Pacific Islander: a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent or the Pacific Islands. The area includes, for example, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands and Samoa. (d) American Indian or Alaskan Native: a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America, and who maintains cultural identification through tribunal affiliation or community recognition. (3) Female - as referred to in this regulation means either minority or nonminority women. (i) "Eligibility pools" means a grouping of applicants who meet the qualifications of minimum legal working age; or a grouping of applicants who meet lawful qualification standards in addition to the minimum legal working age, provided that such pool shall be composed of applicants so qualified sufficiently representative of members of protected classes in order to make possible the achievement of goals and timetables. (j) "Affirmative action" includes procedures, methods and programs, including projection of specific goals and timetables, which encourage the expansion of training opportunities and involve larger numbers of participants from those segments of the labor force where the need for upgrading is the greatest. It includes procedures, methods and programs for the identification, recruitment and training of present and potential minority and female apprentices. It is action which will equalize opportunity in state approved and registered apprentice programs and is not merely passive nondiscrimination. (k) "Good faith efforts" are a program sponsor's actions to fulfill commitment to achievement of equal opportunity in the recruitment, selection, training and employment of apprentices, its actions to comply with the provisions of its written affirmative action plan and the attainment of its goals. Each case in which good faith efforts are in question shall be considered separately on its merits. (l) "Goal" means a numerical objective fixed realistically in term of the number of vacancies expected within the sponsor's projected business conditions and planning, keyed to the availability of qualified applicants. A goal shall not be interpreted as a quota. (m) "Timetable" means a specific reasonable period of time established by the sponsor to measure results within the sponsor's affirmative action plan.