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In California, the DAS 140 apprenticeship notice is generally due within 10 days of the contract award and before work begins. It notifies the applicable apprenticeship committees that you are performing covered public work. Missing the window can create a compliance violation even when apprentices are later employed correctly.

The DAS 140 is a notice to apprenticeship committees that you hold a covered public works contract. The DAS 142 is a request to a committee to dispatch apprentices to the job. The 140 informs; the 142 actually requests workers, and it needs lead time before apprentices are needed.

Under 8 CCR 230.1(a), a DAS 142 request for dispatch must be submitted at least 72 hours before apprentices are needed on site, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. That gives the apprenticeship committee time to respond and dispatch. Requesting too late is a common reason a contractor cannot meet the apprentice ratio.

On California public works, the standard requirement is at least one hour of apprentice work for every five hours of journeyman work in an apprenticeable craft. The exact ratio can vary by craft and program. The obligation is measured across the project, so apprentice hours must keep pace throughout.

Failing to meet apprenticeship obligations on public works can bring civil penalties per day of violation, and repeated or willful violations carry higher penalties and debarment risk. Because the requirement is measured over the job, a shortfall discovered late usually cannot be cured, only penalized.

On certain public projects, a skilled and trained workforce requirement mandates that a set percentage of workers in each apprenticeable craft be journeymen who graduated from an approved apprenticeship program. The required graduation percentage rises over time and must be documented for each craft on the job.

Apprenticeship tracking is built for California today, where the DAS 140, DAS 142, the 1-to-5 apprentice ratio, and skilled-and-trained-workforce rules apply. The underlying engine tracks apprentice and journeyman hours by craft against any program requirement, so we extend it to other states as customers win covered work in them.

No. We do not store Social Security numbers, and we never use your data to train shared models or share it across customers. Apprentice, journeyman, and payroll data is isolated to your organization, encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in the US, and yours to export or delete at any time.