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Section 5. The Employer shall participate in the Apprenticeship program by accepting <br />Apprentices for employment upon referral by the Union. The Employer is not obligated <br />to accept more than one (1) Apprentice for every five (5) Journeyworkers commencing <br />with the sixth Laborer employed. <br />Section 6. The Employer may not employ an Apprentice until at least one <br />Joumeyworker is employed and thereafter may not employ more than one (1) Apprentice <br />for every additional three (3) Journeyworkers. <br />Section 7. An Apprentice should, whenever possible, be rotated by the Employer <br />through different types of work so as to become trained in a variety of operations and <br />work skills. Where the Employer is unable to provide an Apprentice with the experience <br />in the full range of craft skills, the JATC may request the Local Union to reassign the <br />Apprentice to other employment in order to provide that experience. For so long as the <br />Employer is able to provide the necessary range of employment experience, the Employer <br />may choose to retain the apprentice from job to job, but shall notify the Local Union and <br />JATC of all reassignments. <br />Section 8. An Apprentice shall not be penalized for taking off from work to attend <br />offsite training (though time off for training is unpaid). <br />CATEGORY X — Commercial and Common Wage Projects <br />Section 1 — Commercial Projects. For the purpose of making the contractor's signatory to <br />this Agreement more competitive and to create added jobs for the unemployed members <br />of Laborers' International Union of North America, State of Indiana District Council for <br />and on behalf of its affiliated Local Unions 41/81, it is agreed that the wage rates for work <br />being performed on projects defined in the following table titled "Commercial Eligible <br />Projects" and hereinafter referred to as "Commercial Projects" shall be eighty (85%) per <br />cent of the hourly wage rates listed in Category I thru IX in this Article XXXII. Fringe <br />benefit contributions on Commercial Projects will be one hundred percent (100%) as <br />designated in Article XXXI Schedule of Fringe Benefit Contributions. <br />1. The Commercial Projects wage in this section shall apply as long as one other craft <br />is working at a reduced rate for a similar market recovery or commercial agreement <br />on the project. <br />2. Annual increases to the hourly wage rates listed in Category I thru IX and the <br />Schedule of Fringe Benefit Contributions will apply to the calculated wage and <br />benefits in this section. <br />3. This Section 1 does not apply to projects in Lake and Porter counties. <br />4. This Section 1 does not apply to projects that are performed under a Project Labor <br />Agreement (PLA). <br />36 <br />