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Board approves apprenticeship task-force report for inclusion in sunset review, seeks stronger program oversight
Summary
After two task-force meetings, the State Board approved its apprenticeship report for inclusion in the sunset review and directed staff to return with enforcement processes, complaint materials for apprentices and proposed sponsor oversight rules to address fraud, unpaid wages and false enrollments.
The State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology on Aug. 6 voted to include the apprenticeship task-force report in its upcoming sunset review, endorsing stricter oversight and enforcement steps to address fraud and worker misclassification in California’s barbering and cosmetology apprenticeship programs.
Board members and staff described multiple problems that task-force participants documented: apprentices who are booth renters or paid only by commission rather than W-2 wage employees; program sponsors that franchise or use satellite affiliates and sometimes collect state LEA (Local Educational Agency) reimbursements without producing…
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