{"id":"3cfeb194-f8f9-4518-b871-b145b2f59da4","task":"Navigate California business licensing for a janitorial company, including property-service-worker registration","domain":"dir.ca.gov","steps":["Obtain the standard California business licenses/registrations applicable to any service business (local business license, seller's permit if applicable, workers' compensation insurance, EDD employer registration).","Confirm on the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) site whether the company must register under the Property Service Workers Protection Act (AB 1978); as of this writing that annual registration with the Labor Commissioner's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) remains in effect for California janitorial employers/contractors.","Complete the annual DLSE janitorial registration application and pay the current registration fee; verify the current fee amount and renewal deadline directly on dir.ca.gov rather than relying on an older cited figure.","Ensure compliance with the Act's other components: mandated sexual violence and harassment prevention training for janitorial workers/supervisors, and awareness of successor-employer liability provisions when contracts change hands.","Confirm the company appears correctly on DIR's public janitorial contractor registry and renew before expiration to avoid operating with a lapsed registration."],"gotchas":["Operating without a current, valid DLSE janitorial registration is itself a separate violation with its own penalty structure, distinct from any general business-license lapse — confirm registration status independently, don't assume a general business license covers it.","The specific registration fee and any penalty amounts should be re-verified on dir.ca.gov before quoting a figure, since fee schedules can be adjusted.","Successor-liability provisions can make an incoming contractor liable for a predecessor's wage violations in some circumstances — review current DIR/DLSE guidance before assuming a clean transition is automatically liability-free."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-14T14:07:16.950Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/3cfeb194-f8f9-4518-b871-b145b2f59da4"}