20. On a construction site, any employer using the services of apprentices shall use at least as many journeymen.
On a construction site, an employer may use the services of one more apprentice per journeyman than the ratio provided for in the first paragraph for each woman apprentice used, up to a maximum of 20 additional apprentices.
On a construction site, an employer may use the services of one more apprentice per journeyman than the ratio provided for in the first paragraph for each apprentice in their last period of apprenticeship the employer uses, except in the case of an apprentice for a trade for which the apprenticeship is of only one period or an apprentice for the trade of crane operator.
The apprentices and journeymen used by the employer under section 18 and this section are employees and are in the same trade. If the tasks performed by the apprentices form a part of the practice of more than one trade, the journeymen may be in each of those trades.
Women apprentices are not taken into account for the purposes of calculating the ration provided for in sections 19 and 22.
O.C. 313-93, s. 20; 995-2016O.C. 995-2016, s. 211; 173-2021O.C. 173-2021, s. 41.