The purposes of this chapter are:
I. To encourage employers, associations of employers and organizations of employees to voluntarily establish apprenticeship programs and the making of apprenticeship agreements;II. To create opportunities for young people to obtain employment and adequate training in trades and industry with parallel instructions in related and supplementary education under conditions that will equip them for profitable employment and citizenship;III. To cooperate with the promotion and development of apprenticeship programs and systems in other states and with the federal committee on apprenticeship appointed under Public Law No. 308-75th U.S. Congress (Fitzgerald Act);IV. To encourage the registration and approval of apprenticeship programs and apprenticeship agreements by the United States Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship (OA).Amended by 2021, 38:1, eff. 7/16/2021.1947, 166:1 par. 1. 2007, 241:1, eff. Aug. 24, 2007. 2021, 38:1, eff. July 16, 2021.