Equal Employment Opportunity

Registered Apprenticeship is a powerful tool for growing the American economy and training its workforce and is a proven method to help employers build diversity and inclusion in their workplaces. The U.S. Department of Labor has in place an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulation for Registered Apprenticeship Programs to help businesses reach a larger and more diverse pool of workers. When all qualified individuals, including women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities, have the opportunity to become apprentices, we tap into our nation’s full potential and open new career pathways for American workers.

This website provides comprehensive information, tools, and resources for apprentices and Registered Apprenticeship sponsors about the apprenticeship EEO regulation and promoting diversity and inclusion in apprenticeship.

A valuable resource for apprenticeship program sponsors, the Universal Outreach Tool provides an online mechanism for finding diverse candidates for apprenticeship. This tool can help sponsors comply with the universal outreach and recruitment requirements of the apprenticeship EEO regulations. These requirements, which apply to all sponsors, include developing, and annually updating, a list of recruitment sources that will generate referrals from all demographic groups within their recruitment area; identifying contacts at each of these sources; and providing these sources with advance notice of all apprenticeship openings.

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