1-3 1. To open to people, without regard to race, color, creed, sex, sexual

1-4 orientation, religion, disability or national origin, the opportunity to obtain

1-5 training that will equip them for profitable employment and citizenship.

1-6 2. To establish, as a means to this end, an organized program for the

1-7 voluntary training of persons under approved standards for apprenticeship,

1-8 providing facilities for their training and guidance in the arts and crafts of

1-9 industry and trade, with instruction in related and supplementary

1-10 education.

1-11 3. To promote opportunities for employment for all persons, without

1-12 regard to race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability or

1-13 national origin, under conditions providing adequate training and

1-14 reasonable earnings.

1-15 4. To regulate the supply of skilled workers in relation to the demand

1-16 for skilled workers.

1-17 5. To establish standards for the training of apprentices in approved

2-13 1. The names and signatures of the contracting parties and the

2-14 signature of a parent or legal guardian if the apprentice is a minor.

2-15 2. The date of birth of the apprentice.

2-16 3. The name and address of the sponsor of the program.

2-17 4. A statement of the trade or craft in which the apprentice is to be

2-18 trained, and the beginning date and expected duration of the

2-19 apprenticeship.

2-20 5. A statement showing the number of hours to be spent by the

2-21 apprentice in work and the number of hours to be spent in related and

2-22 supplemental instruction, which instruction must not be less than 144 hours

2-23 per year.

2-24 6. A statement setting forth a schedule of the processes in the trade or

2-25 division of industry in which the apprentice is to be trained and the

2-26 approximate time to be spent at each process.

2-27 7. A statement of the graduated scale of wages to be paid the

2-28 apprentice and whether or not compensation is to be paid for the required

2-29 time in school.

2-30 8. Statements providing:

2-31 (a) For a specific period of probation during which the agreement may

2-32 be terminated by either party to the agreement upon written notice to the

2-33 state apprenticeship council; and

2-34 (b) That after the probationary period the agreement may be canceled at

2-35 the request of the apprentice, or suspended, canceled or terminated by the

2-36 sponsor for good cause, with due notice to the apprentice and a reasonable

2-37 opportunity for corrective action, and with written notice to the apprentice

2-38 and the state apprenticeship council of the final action taken.

2-39 9. A reference incorporating as part of the agreement the standards of

2-40 the program as it exists on the date of the agreement and as it may be

2-41 amended during the period of the agreement.

2-42 10. A statement that the apprentice will be accorded equal opportunity

3-13 right of any employer, association of employers or organization of

3-14 employees acting as agent for an employer to participate in a program

3-15 under the provisions of this chapter if the Nevada equal rights commission,

3-16 after notice and hearing, finds that the employer, association or

3-17 organization has discriminated against an apprentice because of race, color,

3-18 creed, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability or national origin in

3-22 context otherwise requires:

3-23 1. "Disability" means, with respect to a person:

3-24 (a) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or

3-25 more of the major life activities of the person;

3-26 (b) A record of such an impairment; or

3-27 (c) Being regarded as having such an impairment.

3-28 2. "Employer" means any person who has 15 or more employees for

3-29 each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or

3-30 preceding calendar year, but does not include:

3-31 (a) The United States or any corporation wholly owned by the United

3-32 States.

3-33 (b) Any Indian tribe.

3-34 (c) Any private membership club exempt from taxation pursuant to

3-35 section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of [1954.] 1986.

3-36 3. "Employment agency" means any person regularly undertaking

3-37 with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to

3-38 procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer, but does not

3-39 include any agency of the United States.

3-40 4. "Labor organization" means any organization of any kind, or any

3-41 agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees

4-9 unlawful employment practice for an employer:

4-10 (a) To fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any person, or otherwise to

4-11 discriminate against any person with respect to his compensation, terms,

4-12 conditions or privileges of employment, because of his race, color,

4-13 religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or national origin; or

4-14 (b) To limit, segregate or classify [employees in any] an employee in a

4-15 way which would deprive or tend to deprive [any person] him of

4-16 employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an

4-17 employee, because of his race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age,

4-18 disability or national origin.

4-19 2. It is an unlawful employment practice for an employment agency to

4-20 [fail] :

4-21 (a) Fail or refuse to refer for employment, or otherwise to discriminate

4-22 against, any person because of [his] the race, color, religion, sex, sexual

4-23 orientation, age, disability or national origin [, or to classify] of that

4-24 person; or

4-25 (b) Classify or refer for employment any person on the basis of [his] the

4-26 race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or national

4-27 origin [.] of that person.

4-28 3. It is an unlawful employment practice for a labor organization:

4-29 (a) To exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise to

4-30 discriminate against, any person because of his race, color, religion, sex,

4-31 sexual orientation, age, disability or national origin;

4-32 (b) To limit, segregate or classify its membership, or to classify or fail

4-33 or refuse to refer for employment any person, in any way which would

4-34 deprive or tend to deprive him of employment opportunities, or would

4-35 limit his employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status

4-36 as an employee or as an applicant for employment, because of his race,

4-37 color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or national origin; or

4-38 (c) To cause or attempt to cause an employer to discriminate against

4-39 any person in violation of this section.

4-40 4. It is an unlawful employment practice for any employer, labor

4-41 organization or joint labor-management committee controlling

4-42 apprenticeship or other training or retraining, including , without

6-19 discriminate against any of his employees or applicants for employment,

6-20 for an employment agency to discriminate against any person, or for a

6-21 labor organization to discriminate against any member thereof or applicant

6-22 for membership, because he has opposed any practice made an unlawful

6-23 employment practice by NRS 613.310 to 613.435, inclusive, or because he

6-24 has made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an

6-25 investigation, proceeding or hearing under NRS 613.310 to 613.435,

6-26 inclusive.

6-27 2. It is an unlawful employment practice for an employer, labor

6-28 organization or employment agency to print or publish or cause to be

6-29 printed or published any notice or advertisement relating to employment

6-30 by such an employer or membership in or any classification or referral for

6-31 employment by such a labor organization, or relating to any classification

6-32 or referral for employment by such an employment agency, indicating any

6-33 preference, limitation, specification or discrimination, based on race, color,

6-34 religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or national origin, except

6-35 that such a notice or advertisement may indicate a preference, limitation,

6-36 specification or discrimination based on religion, sex, sexual orientation,

6-37 age, physical, mental or visual condition or national origin when religion,

6-38 sex, sexual orientation, age, physical, mental or visual condition or

6-39 national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification for employment.

6-42 employer to hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to

8-5 613.435, inclusive, it is not an unlawful employment practice for an

8-6 employer to apply different standards of compensation, or different terms,

8-7 conditions or privileges of employment pursuant to a bona fide seniority or

8-8 merit system, or a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality

8-9 of production or to employees who work in different locations, if those

8-10 differences are not the result of an intention to discriminate because of

8-11 race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or national

8-12 origin, nor is it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to give

8-13 and to act upon the results of any professionally developed ability test, if

8-14 the test, its administration or action upon the results is not designed,

8-15 intended or used to discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex,

8-19 requires any employer, employment agency, labor organization or joint

8-20 labor-management committee subject to NRS 613.310 to 613.435,

8-21 inclusive, to grant preferential treatment to any person or to any group

8-22 because of the race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability

8-23 or national origin of the individual or group on account of an imbalance

8-24 which exists with respect to the total number or percentage of persons of

8-25 any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or national

8-26 origin employed by any employer, referred or classified for employment

8-27 by any employment agency or labor organization, admitted to membership

8-28 or classified by any labor organization, or admitted to, or employed in, any

8-29 apprenticeship or other training program, in comparison with the total

8-30 number or percentage of persons of that race, color, religion, sex, sexual

8-31 orientation, age, disability or national origin in any community, section or

8-32 other area, or in the available work force in any community, section or

8-36 within the scope of NRS 613.310 to 613.435, inclusive, may file a

8-37 complaint to that effect with the Nevada equal rights commission if the

8-38 complaint is based on discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual

8-42 departments, housing authorities, agencies, boards or appointing officers

9-18 performance of work under a contract with the state, or any of its political

9-19 subdivisions, when payment of the contract price, or any part of such

9-20 payment, is to be made from public [funds,] money, to refuse to employ or

9-21 to discharge from employment any person because of his race, color,

9-22 creed, national origin, sex , sexual orientation or age, or to discriminate

9-23 against a person with respect to hire, tenure, advancement, compensation

9-24 or other terms, conditions or privileges of employment because of his race,

9-25 creed, color, national origin, sex , sexual orientation or age.

9-26 2. Contracts negotiated between contractors and the state, or any of its

9-27 political subdivisions, [shall] must contain the following contractual

9-28 provisions:

9-29 In connection with the performance of work under this contract,

9-30 the contractor agrees not to discriminate against any employee or

9-31 applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, national

9-32 origin, sex , sexual orientation or age [. Such agreement shall

9-33 include, but not be limited to, the following: Employment,] ,

9-34 including, without limitation, with regard to employment,

9-35 upgrading, demotion or transfer, recruitment or recruitment

9-36 advertising, layoff or termination, rates of pay or other forms of

9-37 compensation, and selection for training, including , without

9-38 limitation, apprenticeship.

9-39 The contractor further agrees to insert this provision in all

9-40 subcontracts hereunder, except subcontracts for standard

9-41 commercial supplies or raw materials.