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California's Labor Commissioner'due south Role has launched an online registration system for janitorial service providers and contractors operating in the state.

Janitorial companies in California are required past law to register annually.  The registration fee is $500. First time applicants must also pay a nonrefundable $500 application fee. The fee covers the cost of administering and enforcing the janitorial registration plan.  The annual renewal fee is also $500

Companies with one or more employees that fail to annals by October ane may be discipline to a ceremonious fine, as will any person or entity that contracts with them. Unregistered companies face a fine of $100 for each agenda mean solar day that the employer is unregistered — not to exceed $10,000.

According to the law, a covered worker is anyone working predominantly as a janitor, whether as an employee, contained contractor or a franchisee.

Co-ordinate to  Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su, the online registration tool volition get in easy for janitorial employers to comply with the constabulary, and will aid the country to hold accountable businesses in the underground economy that underpay their workers and evade labor laws.

The registration is one manner for property owners to distinguish law-abiding contractors from wage thieves, Su said. Companies that do not register volition be bailiwick to a fine of $100 for each calendar day that the employer is unregistered, not to exceed $ten,000.

The Labor Commissioner's Office has posted a registration search tool that shows whether employers and contractors are properly registered.

For more than data, visit the California Department of Industrial Relations website.