apprenticeship or other on-job training

apprenticeship or other on-job training Sec. 304. (a) Chapter 34 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by redesignating sections 1683, 1684, 1685, and 1686 as section 1684, 1685, 1686, and 1687, respectively, and by inserting immediately after section 1682 thereof the following new section: “§ 1683. Apprenticeship or other on-job training “(a) Any eligible veteran may receive the benefits of this chapter while pursuing a full-time— “(1) program of apprenticeship approved by a State approving agency as meeting the standards of apprenticeship published by the Secretary of Labor pursuant to section 50a of title 29, United States Code, or “(2) program of other training on the job approved under the provisions of section 1777 of this title, subject to the conditions and limitations of this chapter with respect to educational assistance. “(b) The monthly training assistance allowance of an eligible veteran pursuing a program described under subsection (a) shall be as follows: “Periods of training No dependents One dependent Two or more dependents First 6 months $80 $90 $100 Second 6 months 60 70 80 Third 6 months 40 50 60 Fourth and any succeeding 6-month periods 20 30 40 “(c) For purposes of this chapter and chapter 36 of this title, the terms ‘program of apprenticeship’ and ‘program of other on-job training’ shall have the same meaning as ‘program of education’; and the term ‘training assistance allowance’ shall have the same meaning as ‘educational assistance allowance’.” (b) The table of sections of chapter 34 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out “1683” and all that follows and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “1683. Apprenticeship or other on-job training. “1684. Measurement of courses. “1685. Overcharges by educational institutions. “1686. Approval of courses. “1687. Discontinuance of allowances.” (c) Section 1652 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(e) For the purposes of this chapter and chapter 36 of this title, the term ‘training establishment’ means any establishment providing apprentice or other training on the job, including those under the supervision of a college or university or any State department of education, or any State apprenticeship agency, or any State board of vocational education, or any joint apprenticeship committee, or the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training established pursuant to chapter 4C of title 29, United States Code, or any agency of the Federal Government authorized to supervise such training.” (d) Chapter 36 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by redesignating sections 1777 and 1778 as sections 1778 and 1779, respectively, and by inserting immediately after section 1776 the following new section: 81 Stat. 187 “§ 1777. Approval of training on the job “(a) Any State approving agency may approve a program of training on the job (other than a program of apprenticeship) only when it finds that the job which is the objective of the training 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 turnover, and that the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section are met. “(b) The training establishment offering training which is desired to be approved for the purposes of this chapter must submit to the appropriate State approving agency a written application for approval which, in addition to furnishing such information as is required by the State approving agency, contains a certification that— “(1) the wages to be paid the eligible veteran (A) upon entrance into training, are not less than wages paid nonveterans in the same training position and are at least 50 per centum of the wages paid for the job for which he is to be trained, and (B) such wages will be increased in regular periodic increments until, not later than the last full month of the training period, they will be at least 85 per centum of the wages paid for the job for which such eligible veteran is being trained; and “(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. “(c) As a condition for approving a program of training on the job (other than a program of apprenticeship) the State approving agency must find upon investigation that the following criteria are met: “(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) The job customarily requires full-time training for a period of not less than six months and not more than two years. “(3) The length of the training period is not longer than that customarily required by the 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. “(4) Provision is made for related instruction for the individual eligible veteran who may need it. “(5) There is in the training establishment adequate space, equipment, instructional material, and instructor personnel to provide satisfactory training on the job. “(6) Adequate records are kept to show the progress made by each eligible veteran toward his job objective. “(7) No course of training will be considered bona fide if given to an eligible veteran who is already qualified by training and experience for the job. “(8) A signed copy of the training agreement for each eligible veteran, including the training program and wage scale as approved by the State approving agency, is provided to the veteran and to the Administrator and the State approving agency by the employer. “(9) That the course meets such other criteria as may be established by the State approving agency.” 81 Stat. 188 (e) The table of sections of chapter 36 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out “1777” and all that follows through “Disapproval of courses.” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “1777. Approval of training on the job. “1778. Notice of approval of courses. “1779. Disapproval of courses.”.