Section 10
SEC. 10. As used in this Act— The term “apprentice” means a worker at least sixteen years of age who is covered by a written apprenticeship agreement with an employer, an association of employers, an organization of workers, or an apprenticeship committee registered with the Apprenticeship Division, which contract provides for not less than two thousand hours of reasonably continuous employment for such worker and for his participation in an approved schedule of work experience through employment and supplemented by related classroom instruction. No person shall work or be engaged as apprentice unless he is at least sixteen years of age; has completed the high school course or such course or courses as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe; and shows his fitness for the employment by means of a certificate of his school attendance, demonstration of his capacities and aptitudes, and presentation of a certificate of his physical fitness by a medical officer of the Bureau of Labor Standards or Bureau of Health. The term “apprenticeship” means a system of trained systematically in an apprenticeable occupation for contract to employ a worker and to train hum or have him trained systematically in an apprenticeable occupation for a certain period, the duration of which has been fixed in advance and in the course of which the apprentice is bound to work in the service of such employer or employers. The term “apprenticeable occupation” means an occupation which: (1) is customarily learned in a practical way through training on the job; (2) is clearly identified and commonly recognized throughout the industry as a skilled trade or craft; (3) requires two thousand or more hours of work experience to learn; (4) requires related instruction to supplement the work experience; (5) is not a part of a more extensive occupation recognized as apprenticeable by the Department of Labor; (6) involves the development of skills and the use of tools and equipment sufficiently broad to be applicable in like occupations throughout an industry rather than of restricted application to the products of one or more employees in such industry; and (7) is not concerned with selling or distribution of goods; or with managerial, clerical, professional and semiprofessional activities, or with agriculture as defined by Republic Act Numbered Six hundred two, as amended. The term “employ” includes to suffer or permit to work; The term “employee” includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee. The term “industry” includes a trade, business, industry, or branch thereof, or group of industries, in which individuals are gainfully employed. The term “person” includes an individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representatives, or any organized group of persons.