The workforce analysis should use the sponsor’s apprentice data, regardless of whether or not the sponsor is also the employer.
When the sponsor is an organization that places apprentices with participating employers, which data should be used in the analyses – the sponsor’s apprentice workforce data or the participating employers’ data?
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The availability analysis looks at the racial, sex, and ethnic breakdown of qualified individuals available for apprenticeship in the sponsor’s recruitment area. Individuals are considered qualified if they meet the basic requirements for enrollment in the apprenticeship program. Registration Agencies work closely with each sponsor during regular compliance reviews to develop and conduct an availability analysis.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity regulations specify conducting utilization analyses by major occupation group to provide a larger data set for comparing to the availability data and deciding if goals need to be established. For many programs, a utilization analysis at the occupational title level would not be very helpful because there are not many apprentices within each occupation.
The regulations require use of the more granular occupational title data when sponsors perform internal analyses of their workforces, such as during their annual reviews of personnel practices. Having data broken down by occupational title allows sponsors to review their apprentice workforces at a deeper level that could be overlooked when titles are combined in the utilization analysis.
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Yes. The Registration Agency will provide significant technical assistance during compliance reviews to help sponsors conduct their availability and utilization analyses. An automated tool has been developed for staff to use in helping sponsors conduct the analyses. The Demographic Analysis Tool simplifies the process, by using the most recent Census data on all workers in the civilian labor force (persons working and those looking for work) to perform the availability analyses. The tool also allows staff and sponsors to easily identify where the program is underutilizing women or ethnic/racial minorities.
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Generally, it should not. If journeyworkers are eligible for enrollment in the apprenticeship program, those workers should be included within the sponsor’s availability analysis. However, currently employed journeyworkers should not be included in the sponsor’s workforce analysis.
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