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206 MARYLAND MANUAL John B. Craft, Chief, Safety Inspection Division Edward J. Frack, Sr., Director of Apprenticeship and Training Dana W. Johnston, Chief Research Analyst Bernard Nachlas, Public Information Officer Floyd K. Goldsboro, Chief of Boiler Inspection Bernard O'Neill, Supervisor, Elevator Inspection John W. Parrott, Supervisor, Employment Agencies Emory Easton, Supervisor, Fiscal and Personnel 301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-3010 The Department of Labor and Industry, established by Chapter 211, Acts of 1884, as the Bureau of Statistics and Information, is one of the oldest governmental agencies in this field in the United States, ante- dating the U. S. Department of Labor by one year. After 1892, the Department was known as the Industrial Bureau. A reorganization in 1916 renamed it the State Board of Labor and Statistics, and con- centrated in it powers to enforce all the factory acts. The General Assembly made further changes by Chapter 747, Acts of 1939, and created the present Department by Chapter 938, Acts of 1945. Under the direction of a Commissioner appointed by the Governor for a four-year term, the Department enforces laws and regulations affecting workers and employers and promotes harmony between industry and labor through mediation and arbitration of labor dis- putes and the holding of consent elections. In addition to offering the services of Apprenticeship and Training, the Department is respon- sible for the enforcement of the following laws: Occupational Safety, Minimum Wage, Wage Payment and Collection, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Child Labor, Hours of Labor for Females, Work.Hours of in Factories, Factory Inspection and Industrial Registration, and Boiler Inspection, High Voltage Line Act, Age Discrimination in Employ- ment, Prevailing Wages on Public Contracts, Licensing of Workshops, Licensing of Homeworkers, and the Licensing and Regulation of Private, Fee Charging Employment Agencies (Code, 1957, 1967 Repl. Vol., Art. 27, sees. 324-333; 1964 Repl. Vol., Art. 89, sees. 1-13, 25-63; 1964 Repl. Vol., 1968 Supp., Art. 100, sees. 1-55, 55A-55H, 78-94). Apprenticeship and Training Council Chairman: Sydney C. Blumenthal, Jr. 1973 Ex officio member: Henry Miller, Commissioner, Department of Labor and Industry. Appointed employee organization members: Bernard A. Carpenter, 1972; Harold K. Ritter, 1973. Appointed employer members: Hyman Weiss, 1971; Theodore N. dark, 1972. The Apprenticeship and Training Council, created by Chapter 671, Acts of 1966, consists of seven members, six of whom are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The seventh member is the Commissioner of Labor and Industry who serves ex officio and who votes only in case of a tie vote. Of the six appointive members, three are representatives of employee organiza- tions, and three are representatives of employers. The Council encour- ages the development of an apprenticeship and training system through the voluntary cooperation of management and labor and interested State agencies and in cooperation with other States and the Federal government, formulates policies for the overall appren- ticeship program, formulates and adopts standards of apprenticeship which safeguard the welfare of apprentices, registers apprentices under approved apprenticeship agreements and issues certificates of completion to apprentices who are registered with the Council and |
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