Capitol Connection Q&A for Contractors - Week of May 20, 2013
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
A contractor with a great deal of on-the-job history is ‘shocked’ to learn that his work experience won’t do ‘double duty’ as he seeks to add a new class to his existing license. Another license-seeker is advised to remember the sunscreen when he visits California for a ‘fingerprint’ vacation from his starting point between a rock and a hard place…
New I-9 Requirements Impact Employers
Sweeney, Mason, Wilson & Bosomworth would like to remind all employers that they are required to use a revised I-9 Form to verify the employment eligibility of new employees beginning May 7, 2013. The key revisions to the form include:
Capitol Connection Q&A for Contractors - Week of May 13, 2013
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
Sometimes the ‘landscape’ of contractor’s regulation is like ‘separating the forest from the trees’. We give added perspective to a recent answer that some thought had us ‘barking’ up the wrong tree! We save another aspiring contractor half of what he might have paid to license his corporation…
Legislative Update - SACRAMENTO
from J. Kevin Pedrotti, Legislative Advocate for the Golden State Builders Exchanges (GSBE)
Capitol Connection Q&A for Contractors - Week of May 6, 2013
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
A contractor unsure about what license is required to ‘cut the deck’ is in the cards this time. We offer a second ‘deal’ on a ‘bad hand’ dealt to a contractor who got incorrect advice on asbestos abatement from a friend, but begin with a sub-contractor who ‘folded’ on the game before it was finished…
Q: I am a General Building Contractor and one of the sub-contractors that I hired to do some installations left the job unfinished. What can I do about this?