President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that removes regulations on apprenticeships.
With Governor Scott Walker at his side, President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the rules of apprenticeships Thursday, June 15th.
He explained that the executive order would "expand apprenticeships and vocational training to help all Americans find a rewarding career, earn a great living, and support themselves and their families and love going to work in the morning".
We have regulations upon regulations, and in history nobody has gotten rid of so many regulations as the Trump administration.
Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit that helps promote skills training and job opportunities for low-income people, supports apprenticeship programs that have the Labor Department's stamp of approval, says the group's president, Maria K. Flynn.
But the NRA is responsible for one of the relatively few existing apprenticeship programs and previous year, the organization's educational foundation was awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Labor to create the first ever federally registered hospitality sector apprenticeship program. It will also provide more funding and create a task force of business leaders to help promote the programs across new sectors, as well as assess the effectiveness of the job-training programs now in place. Senior administration officials have said Trump was reluctant to spend more federal money on apprenticeships, so the boost would come from existing money, perhaps from the streamlining process.
The official said new Labor Department grants could be used to grow apprenticeship programs in community colleges and high schools and expand them to industries beyond the trades, such as agriculture and engineering. "We're here today to celebrate the dignity of work and the greatness of the American worker".
"Yeah, it's really easy to get work through the apprenticeship, for at least masonry", said Hogan. It should help fill numerous almost six million jobs that now are open, including 350,000 in manufacturing, Mr. Trump said.
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We will be removing federal restrictions that have prevented many different industries from creating apprenticeship programs.
During a round table conversation at the technical college, Trump said he wants every high school in America to offer apprenticeship programs. It relies on funds outside the apprenticeship program - a challenge in that the Trump budget plan would cut spending overall on job training.
Registered apprenticeships are administered by a special office within the US Department of Labor in conjunction with state agencies.
And both employers and economists agree with the White House that the skills gap - the discrepancy between the number of workers available to do the work and the skills required for the job - is something the country needs to address.
Apprenticeship includes paid classroom instruction, on-the-job training, and provides participants with licenses in order to practice certain professions. "There are millions of good jobs that lead to great careers, jobs that do not require a four-year degree or the massive debt that often comes with those four-year degrees and even two-year degrees".
Dawn Sweeney is the President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation.
To achieve that goal, his administration would need to increase the current number of active apprenticeships in the USA nearly 10-fold - from 505,371 in the last quarter of 2016, according to the Department of Labor - in just five years.
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