Short answer. Yes. Article 70 provides that where the services of foreign technicians are utilised by private companies in apprenticeable trades, those companies are required to set up appropriate apprenticeship programmes. It is a requirement, stated in the same article that otherwise leaves apprenticeship to the employer's choice.
What the law says
Where services of foreign technicians are utilized by private companies in apprenticeable trades, said companies are required to set up appropriate apprenticeship programs.
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An exception standing on its own
The rest of the article treats apprenticeship as primarily a voluntary undertaking by employers, and makes compulsory training something the President may impose in critical trades. This clause is different in kind. It does not wait for any issuance and does not depend on a shortage being declared; the obligation attaches to the company's own decision to bring in foreign technical skill. Having made that decision, the company is required to set up an appropriate programme, and the word is not softened anywhere in the sentence.
The policy is skills transfer
The reasoning is visible in the drafting. Engaging foreign technicians is a way of obtaining expertise the local workforce is short of, and the article's answer is that a company doing so should be closing that gap at the same time rather than renewing the arrangement indefinitely. Training Filipino apprentices in the trade is the price of the shortcut. Read that way, the clause is less a burden on the employer than a condition on a privilege it has chosen to take up.
Two limits worth noticing
The obligation is expressed in terms of apprenticeable trades, so the trade in question must be one that apprenticeship covers; not every technical role is. And the programme required is an appropriate one, which ties it to the trade the technicians are actually working in rather than allowing a token programme in some unrelated occupation. A company employing foreign specialists in one field and running an apprenticeship in another has not obviously answered what this clause asks of it.
What to ask if this affects you
Workers rarely see this clause invoked, because the obligation runs to the labour authorities rather than to any individual employee, and nobody can demand a place in a programme under it. What it gives you is a question worth asking: which programme does this company run, in which trade, and is it recognised. Ask for the apprenticeship agreement and the programme details in writing, and keep them. Those documents are also what any later dispute about your training status will turn on.