A pattern or practice of noncompliance by a sponsor (or when the sponsor is a joint apprenticeship committee, by one of the parties represented on this committee) with federal and State laws or regulations requiring equal opportunity may be grounds for the imposition of sanctions in accordance with Regulation .12 of this chapter if this noncompliance is related to the equal employment opportunity of apprentices and graduates of an apprenticeship program under these regulations. The sponsor shall take affirmative steps to assist and cooperate with employers and unions in fulfilling their equal employment opportunity obligations.

Authority: Labor and Employment Article, §11-405, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: September 1, 1971

Chapter revised effective September 8, 1978 (5:18 Md. R. 1387)

(Transferred from Department of Licensing and Regulation to Department of Employment and Training, effective October 1, 1983; recodified from COMAR 09.12.21 to 24.04.01)

Chapter revised effective December 21, 1992 (19:25 Md. R. 2208)

Chapter recodified from COMAR 24.04.01 to COMAR 09.12.42, May 1996

Regulation .01 amended effective April 11, 2016 (43:7 Md. R. 448)