A Vision for the Future: Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training--Phase II Discussion Paper.

This paper presents regulatory change proposals from the Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training Board and Department of Advanced Education and Career Development for public discussion and comment. Section 1 outlines proposals relating to regulations: program and process details; the ratio of journeymen to apprentices; and apprentice wages. These proposals include no change to content of program requirements, including entrance requirements; removal of program and process details from regulation; retention by the provincial apprenticeship committees and the Board of the authority to set these requirements; no change to journeyman/apprentice ratios; continuation of adequate supervision as the central factor in determining those ratios; and determination of apprentice's wages by market forces. Section 2 outlines proposals about the designation of trades and occupations: continuation of three categories of designation; the Board's use of new criteria to resume its applications for redesignation of optional trades as compulsory trades; and industry's continued responsibility for training in designated occupations, but no regulation of training. Appendixes include a glossary, apprenticeship and industry training regulatory framework, Alberta-designated trades and occupations, proposals, and comments form. (YLB)