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Training Administration. The ratio of trainees to journeymen on the job ' <br /> site shall not be greater than permitted under the plan approved by the <br /> Employment and Training Administration. Every trainee must be paid at <br /> not less than the rate specified in the approved program for the <br /> trainee's level of progress, expressed as a percentage of the journeyman ' <br /> hourly rate specified in the applicable wage determination. Trainees <br /> shall be paid fringe benefits in accordance with the provisions of the <br /> trainee program. If the trainee program does not mention fringe ' <br /> benefits, trainees shall be paid the full amount of fringe benefits <br /> listed on the wage determination unless the Administrator of the Wage <br /> and Hour Division determines that there is an apprenticeship program <br /> associated with the corresponding journeyman wage rate on the wage ' <br /> determination which provides for less than full fringe benefits for <br /> apprentices. Any employee listed on the payroll at a trainee rate who is <br /> not registered and participating in a training plan approved by the <br /> Employment and Training Administration shall be paid not less than the , <br /> applicable wage rate <br /> on the wage determination for the classification of work actually <br /> performed. In addition,'any trainee performing work on the job site in <br /> excess of the ratio permitted under the registered program shall be paid ' <br /> not less than the applicable wage rate on the wage determination for the <br /> work actually performed. In the event the Employment and Training <br /> Administration withdraws approval of a training program, the contractor <br /> will no longer be permitted to utilize trainees at less than the , <br /> applicable predetermined rate for the work performed until an acceptable <br /> program is approved. <br /> (iii) Equal employment opportunity. The utilization of apprentices, ' <br /> trainees and journeymen under this part shall be in conformity with the <br /> equal employment opportunity requirements of Executive Order 11246, as <br /> amended, and 29 CFR part 30. <br /> (5) Compliance with Copeland Act requirements. The contractor shall ' <br /> comply with the requirements of 29 CFR part 3, which are incorporated by <br /> reference in this contract. <br /> (6) Subcontracts. The contractor or subcontractor shall insert in <br /> any subcontracts the clauses contained in 29 CFR 5.5(a) (1) through (10) ' <br /> and such other clauses as the (write in the name of the Federal agency) <br /> may by appropriate instructions require, and also a clause requiring the <br /> subcontractors to include these clauses in any lower tier subcontracts. <br /> The prime contractor shall be responsible for the compliance by any ' <br /> subcontractor or lower tier subcontractor with all the contract clauses <br /> in 29 CFR 5.5. <br /> (7) Contract termination: debarment. A breach of the contract <br /> clauses in 29 CFR 5.5 may be grounds for termination of the contract, ' <br /> and for debarment as a contractor and a subcontractor as provided in 29 <br /> CFR 5.12. <br /> (8) Compliance with Davis-Bacon and Related Act requirements. All <br /> rulings and interpretations of the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts <br /> contained in 29 CFR parts 1, 3, and 5 are herein incorporated by <br /> reference in this contract. <br /> (9) Disputes concerning labor standards. Disputes arising out of the ' <br /> labor standards provisions of this contract shall not be subject to the <br /> general disputes clause of this contract. Such disputes shall be <br /> resolved in accordance with the procedures of the Department of Labor <br /> set forth in 29 CFR parts 5, 6, and 7. Disputes within the meaning of ' <br /> this clause include disputes between the contractor (or any of its <br /> subcontractors) and the contracting agency, the U.S. Department of <br /> Labor, or the employees or their representatives. <br />