On-the-job training periods, use of entry-level workers and apprentices
On public works projects, employers can hire beginner workers and apprentices who are paid half the regular skilled worker's wage. There cannot be more beginners and apprentices combined than there are skilled workers on the job — it has to be at least one skilled worker for every one beginner or apprentice.
290.235. periods, use of entry-level workers and apprentices — wages — . — 1. Employers may use entry-level workers and federally apprentices for on-the-job training periods. The wage rate for on-the-job training workers shall be equal to fifty percent of the for a under the for a specific .
2. The combined total of entry-level workers and federally registered apprentices shall not exceed a one-to-one ratio with the number of journeyman workers in any occupational title on a subject to sections 290.210 to 290.340.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2018 H.B. 1729, et al.)
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