Apprenticeship Ordinance, 1962
The Apprenticeship Ordinance, 1962 (the “Ordinance”) is applicable on such undertakings as the Provincial Government may notify in the official Gazette. The undertaking is defined in the Ordinance as any establishment wherein fifty or more persons are employed. The notified undertaking is obliged to introduce and operate an apprenticeship program and get the program registered with the competent authority. Under the apprenticeship program, the notified undertaking is required to train apprentices in the proportion of a minimum of twenty (20) per cent of the total number of person employed in apprentice able trade.
