California contractors licensing, please explain

[justdave9]

Unless the law has changed, only employees of C-10 contractors are required to be licensed. It's crazy.

 

[jaggedben]

Unless the law has changed, only employees of C-10 contractors are required to be licensed. It's crazy.

Strictly speaking their required to be 'certified'. With DIR, not CSLB.
But I agree it's crazy.

 

[norcal]

Strictly speaking their required to be 'certified'. With DIR, not CSLB.
But I agree it's crazy.

Employees are not contractors so not so crazy.

 

[jaggedben]

Employees are not contractors so not so crazy.

The crazy part is the certification only applying to one class of contractor.

 

[norcal]

The crazy part is the certification only applying to one class of contractor.

Since when has the State of California made sense?

 

[tortuga]

You C10's should organize a mass switch to general B's in protest.
If they got 50,000 applications for C10's to switch to general B they would get the picture.

 

[dhinvid]

All businesses or individuals who construct or alter any building, highway, road, parking facility, railroad, excavation, or other structure in California must be licensed by the California Contractors State License Board (CSLB)