Public works: prevailing wage: multiemployer apprenticeship program grants.

Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Under existing law, an apprentice employed upon public works is required to be paid the prevailing rate of per diem wages for apprentices in the trade to which he or she is registered and to be employed only at the work of the craft or trade to which he or she is registered, as specified. Under existing law a contractor to whom a contract is awarded, who, in performing any of the work under the contract, employs journeymen or apprentices in any apprenticeable craft or trade is required to contribute to the California Apprenticeship Council the same amount that the director determines is the prevailing amount of apprenticeship training contributions in the area of the public works site. Existing law requires the California Apprenticeship Council to distribute the training contributions by making a grant to an approved multiemployer apprenticeship program serving the same craft or trade and geographical area for which the training contributions were made to the council, for the purpose of training apprentices. Under existing law, if there are 2 or more approved multiemployer apprenticeship programs serving the same craft or trade and geographical area for which the training contributions were made to the council, the grant is required to be divided among all those programs based on the number of apprentices registered in each program. This bill would, if there are two or more approved multiemployer apprenticeship programs serving the same craft or trade and county for which the training contributions were made to the council, require the grant to be divided among those programs based on the number of apprentices from that county registered in each program.