Section 11. Section ten of Republic Act Numbered One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:
"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 employers, an association of employers, an organization of workers, or an apprenticeship committee registered with the Office of Apprenticeship 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 Council may prescribe; and shows his fitness for the employment by means of a certificate of his school attendance, demonstration of his capacities and aptitude, and presentation of a certificate of his physical fitness by a medical officer of the Department of Labor or Bureau of Health.
The term "apprenticeship" means a system of training in which one or more employers undertake by contract to employ a worker and to train him 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 in 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 National Apprenticeship Council; (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 semi-professional 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 "employer" includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee or apprentice;
The term "industry" includes any trade or business, enterprise or branch or branches thereof or any calling, service or employment 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."