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(g) "Basic skills training" refers to the first stage of the learning process
of a vocational character for a given task, job, occupation or group of
occupations, aimed at developing the fundamental attitude/knowledge/
skill/behavior pattern to specified standards. This covers any of the
following:
(1) "Pre-entry training" is a basic skills training for immediate entry into
the working environment.
(2) "Accelerated training" is basic skills training of a short-term nature
for jobs with a defined level of qualifications. This usually refers to a
rapid paced, condensed vocational training to fill immediate manpower
needs.
(h) "Further training" refers to that part of vocational training which
follows basic training, usually within the framework of a training
program or scheme, for recognized qualifications. This covers any or all
of the following:
(1) Upgrading training for supplementary skills and knowledge in
order to increase the versatility and occupational mobility of a worker
or to improve his standard of performance.
(2) Updating training to improve the performance of people in their
occupation in respect to modern developments; new materials, tools,
processes.
(3) Refresher process of further training in work currently performed
in order to improve job performance. This also refers to training to
regain skills and knowledge which may have been partly forgotten as a
result of length interruptions in the performance of an occupation.
(4) Specialization training to consolidate, deepen and broaden skills
and knowledge for a particular task, function or aspect of a worker's
occupation.
(5) Retraining for the acquisition of skills and knowledge required in an
occupation other than the one for which the person originally trained.
(i) "Entrepreneurship training" refers to the training schemes to develop
persons for self-employment or for organizing, financing and/or
managing an enterprise.
(j) "Cooperative settlement training" refers to the training of a group of
young people or farmer families in modern methods in agriculture and
cooperative living and subsequently to organize and locate them in
cooperative settlement. cralaw
(s) "Job" refers to all the tasks carried out by a particular person in the
completion of his prescribed duties. cralaw
SECTION 15. Annual report to the President. The Council shall report
annually to the President on the progress of the Manpower Plan.
RULE III
Training and Development
SECTION 1. Responsibility of the NMYC for training and development.
The NMYC shall provide, through its Secretariat, instructor training,
entrepreneurship development, training in vocations, trades and other
fields of employment, and assist any employer or organization in
developing training schemes under such rules and regulations as the
Council may establish for this purpose. cralaw
There shall be a review of the said scheme two years after its
implementation. cralaw
RULE V
National Skills Standards
SECTION 1. Establishment of skills standards. There shall be national
skills standards for industry trades to be established by the Council in
consultation with employers' and workers' organizations and
appropriate government authorities. The Council shall thereafter
administer the national skills standards. cralaw
SECTION 29. Wages. The wage rate of the apprentice shall start at
seventy five (75%) per cent of the statutory minimum wage for the first
six (6) months; thereafter, he shall be paid the full minimum wage,
including the full cost of living allowance.
cralaw
A learner who has worked during the first two months shall be deemed
a regular employee if training is terminated by the employer before the
end of the stipulated period through no fault of the learner. cralaw