New Apprenticeship Proposal Draws Warning on Scope of Overhaul

The broadest overhaul of the federal government’s registered apprenticeship program since 2008 is aimed at making the government’s premier job training accreditation more equitable, efficient, and built to respond to new and emerging industries.

But some question whether the effort from the US Labor Department may be too ambitious, and whether it will add too many new requirements to a program that businesses and other sponsors of apprenticeships say is too difficult to participate in.

DOL leaders maintain that the new data reporting requirements for program sponsors—added for metrics like equity and apprentice pay—and the proposed tweaks to what programs ...