The term "apprentice" as used in this Chapter is defined as a worker at least sixteen years of age, except where a higher minimum age standard is otherwise fixed by law, who is employed to learn an apprenticeable occupation pursuant to the standards of apprenticeship as provided for in LAC 40:IX.317 in order to fulfill the requirements of LAC 40:IX.301, and who has entered into a written apprentice agreement with an employer, an association of employers, or an organization of employees, providing for a time-based program model with not less than two thousand hours of reasonably continuous employment, a competency-based program model, or a hybrid program, and for participation in an approved program of training through employment and through education in related and supplemental subjects.
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