---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 1625.21"
title: "29"
number: "1625.21"
heading: "Apprenticeship programs."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/1625.21"
---

# §1625.21. Apprenticeship programs.


All apprenticeship programs, including those apprenticeship programs created or maintained by joint labor-management organizations, are subject to the prohibitions of [sec. 4](/cfr/29/4.md) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended, [29 U.S.C. 623](/usc/29/623.md). Age limitations in apprenticeship programs are valid only if excepted under sec. 4(f)(1) of the Act, [29 U.S.C. 623(f)(1)](/usc/29/623.md?p=f-1), or exempted by the Commission under sec. 9 of the Act, [29 U.S.C. 628](/usc/29/628.md), in accordance with the procedures set forth in [29 CFR 1625.30](/cfr/29/1625.30.md).


## Notes

### Amendments

[80 FR 60540, Oct. 7, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 621-634; 5 U.S.C. 301; Pub. L. 99-502, 100 Stat. 3342; Secretary's Order No. 10-68; Secretary's Order No. 11-68; sec. 2, Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1978, 43 FR 19807; Executive Order 12067, 43 FR 28967.

### Source

Source: 46 FR 47726, Sept. 29, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[80 FR 60540, Oct. 7, 2015]