§386. Apprentice defined
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.
Amended by Acts 1978, No. 602, §1; Acts 2010, No. 791, §1; Acts 2014, No. 740,
§1, eff. June 19, 2014; Acts 2025, No. 376, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.