29 CFR § 1625.21 - Apprenticeship programs.

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title: "29 CFR § 1625.21 - Apprenticeship programs."
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title_name: "Labor"
section_number: "1625.21"
section_name: "Apprenticeship programs."
chapter_name: "EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION"
part_number: "1625"
part_name: "AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT"
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authority: "29 U.S.C. 621-634; 5 U.S.C. 301; Pub. L. 99-502, 100 Stat. 3342; Secretary's Order No. 10-68; Secretary's Order No. 11-68; sec. 2, Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1978, 43 FR 19807; Executive Order 12067, 43 FR 28967."
regulatory_source: "46 FR 47726, Sept. 29, 1981, unless otherwise noted."
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# 1625.21 Apprenticeship programs.

All apprenticeship programs, including those apprenticeship programs created or maintained by joint labor-management organizations, are subject to the prohibitions of sec. 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended, 29 U.S.C. 623. Age limitations in apprenticeship programs are valid only if excepted under sec. 4(f)(1) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. 623(f)(1), or exempted by the Commission under sec. 9 of the Act, 29 U.S.C. 628, in accordance with the procedures set forth in 29 CFR 1625.30.

[80 FR 60540, Oct. 7, 2015]