Common use of Importance of Training Clause in Contracts

Importance of Training. The Parties recognize the need to maintain continuing support of the programs designed to develop adequate numbers of competent workers in the construction industry, the obligation to capitalize on the availability of the local work force in the area served by the City, and the opportunities to provide continuing work under the construction program. To these ends, the Parties will facilitate, encourage, and assist Local Area Residents to commence and progress in an Approved Apprenticeship Programs and/or training programs in the construction industry leading to participation in such apprenticeship programs. The City, the Community Workforce Coordinator, and the Council, will work cooperatively to identify, or establish and maintain, effective programs and procedures for persons interested in entering the construction industry and which will help prepare them for the formal joint labor/management apprenticeship programs maintained by the signatory Unions. 13.1.1 All Apprentices performing work on the project must be registered apprentices training under apprenticeship standards that include the specific work processes that will be performed by the contractor’s journeymen and shall only be assigned work that is included in the apprenticeship standards under which they are indentured.