29 U.S. Code § 50

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29 U.S. Code § 50. Promotion of labor standards of
apprenticeship
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The Secretary of Labor is authorized and directed to formulate and promote
the furtherance of labor standards necessary to safeguard the welfare of
apprentices, to extend the application of such standards by encouraging the
inclusion thereof in contracts of apprenticeship, to bring together employers
and labor for the formulation of programs of apprenticeship, to cooperate with
State agencies engaged in the formulation and promotion of standards of
apprenticeship, and to cooperate with the Secretary of Education in
accordance with section 17 of title 20. For the purposes of this chapter the
term “State” shall include the District of Columbia.
(Aug. 16, 1937, ch. 663, § 1, 50 Stat. 664; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§  201,
204, 206, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 53 Stat. 1424, 1425; July 12, 1943,
ch. 221, title VII, 57 Stat. 518; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11,
1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Pub. L. 93–198, title II, §  204(h), Dec. 24,
1973, 87 Stat. 784; Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(a)(1), Oct. 17, 1979, 93
Stat. 677.)

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