(a) “Added cost to employers” means the actual increased costs incurred by employers when they assume the responsibility for career worksite training. Such increased costs must be specifically identified and may include such costs as those incurred for training supervision, maintaining training records, monitoring the progress of training and implementing performance standards, additional costs of production time allocated for training on the job, wage subsidies to trainees and similar functions essential to career worksite training programs.
(b) “Classroom instruction” means job-related instruction on or off the jobsite, the provision of which is normally outside of scheduled working hours and is neither in the course of production nor in the course of rendering a service. Classroom instruction can be used in coordination with on-site training so that the skills acquired both in the classroom and on the job are mutually reinforced in a manner that enhances the career education and the productivity of the trainee.
(c) “Covered costs of classroom instruction” means costs incurred in the provision of classroom instruction for both entry level and on-site training and may include specially identified costs incurred for instructors, classroom space and facilities, liability insurance, administrative support services and related costs. To the extent possible, funds allocated from this source shall be utilized in the provision of classroom training. Costs such as those for specialized equipment and materials not appropriately attributable to classroom training shall not be allowed.
(d) [Repealed.]
(e) “Eligible applicant” means an applicant who may apply for funds that are made available to fund the purposes of this subchapter. Eligible applicants shall include, but not be limited to, local education agencies, employers, employee organizations, community-based organizations and other providers of training with demonstrated effectiveness, or any combination thereof. No party to a collective bargaining agreement shall be an eligible applicant unless all parties to the agreement apply in writing.
(f) “Entry level training” means instruction conducted in the classroom, worksite or any combination thereof which is short-term in nature and is either preparatory for employment or an integral part of employment in an entry classification in a particular occupation or industry.
(g) [Repealed.]
(h) “On-site training” means the progressive development of skills associated with a defined set of work processes to be covered sequentially in the course of employment in an occupation, trade or industry and shall be consistent with a career pattern of advancement, as measured by skill proficiency and the progression of earnings and related benefits that is recognized within the occupation, trade or industry.