610.180 - Violations of programs or agreements: Investigations; hearings; appeals; exhaustion of administrative remedies.
610.180 Violations of programs or agreements: Investigations; hearings; appeals; exhaustion of administrative remedies.
1. Upon the complaint of any interested person or upon its own initiative, the State Apprenticeship Council may investigate to determine if there has been a violation of the terms or conditions of an approved program or an agreement made under this chapter. The State Apprenticeship Council may hold necessary hearings, inquiries and other proceedings. The parties to each agreement and the sponsors and interested participants in the program shall be given a fair and impartial hearing, after reasonable notice. A copy of the determination or decision of each hearing must be filed with the Labor Commissioner, and if no appeal therefrom is filed with the Labor Commissioner within 10 days after the date thereof the determination or decision of the State Apprenticeship Council becomes the order of the Labor Commissioner.
2. Any person aggrieved by any determination or action of the State Apprenticeship Council may appeal to the Labor Commissioner, whose decision, when supported by evidence, is conclusive if notice of appeal therefrom to the courts is not filed within 30 days after the date of the decision of the Labor Commissioner.
3. A person shall not institute any action based upon:
(a) An agreement;
(b) Proposed or approved standards for apprenticeship; or
(c) A program governed by this chapter,
Ê unless the person first exhausts all administrative remedies provided by this chapter.
[11:192:1939; 1931 NCL § 506.10]—(NRS A 1977, 284; 1987, 447)
NRS 610.185 Suspension of right to participate in program if discrimination practiced. The State Apprenticeship Council shall suspend for 1 year the right of any employer, association of employers or organization of employees acting as agent for an employer to participate in a program under the provisions of this chapter if the Nevada Equal Rights Commission, after notice and hearing, finds that the employer, association or organization has discriminated against an apprentice because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability or national origin in violation of this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 81; A 1975, 1456; 1977, 83, 285; 1987, 447; 1991, 1023; 1999, 1937)