CA DIR Labor Registrations (Car Wash, Farm Labor, Garment, Janitorial, Talent Agency, Entertainment Permits)

Every California labor registration the Department of Industrial Relations publishes, in one clean dataset: car wash, farm labor contractor, garment manufacturer and contractor, janitorial (property service), talent agency, and entertainment permits to employ minors. About 57,500 registration records across roughly 27,000 registrants (a full sweep on 2026-08-22), with registration numbers, statuses, effective and expiration dates, business addresses, and workers' compensation carriers.

DIR publishes this only through a search form that requires a registration type plus a second criterion on every query, and it caps a response at 15 MB. Answering "is this contractor currently registered, and for what" means running searches by hand, one type at a time. This actor runs the whole sweep, verifies its own coverage with a second independent sweep, and returns one record per registrant with every registration attached.

Who this is for

Anyone with a statutory duty to verify that a labor contractor is registered before doing business with them. California requires registration for each of these industries, and it requires the people who hire them to check:

• Garment manufacturing and contracting. Every person engaged in the business of garment manufacturing must register with the Labor Commissioner (Labor Code 2675), and a manufacturer who contracts with an unregistered contractor is deemed an employer and jointly liable (Labor Code 2677).
• Farm labor contractors. No one may act as a farm labor contractor without a license from the Labor Commissioner (Labor Code 1683), and the contractor must hand the grower a copy of the current license before contracting, which the grower keeps for three years (Labor Code 1695.7).
• Janitorial / property service employers. Every janitorial employer must register annually under the Property Service Workers Protection Act (Labor Code 1423), and anyone who contracts with an employer lacking a current and valid registration "as displayed on the online registration database" is subject to penalties (Labor Code 1432).
• Car wash businesses. Every car washing and polishing employer must register annually (Labor Code 2054) and post a surety bond of at least $150,000 to do so (Labor Code 2055).
• Talent agencies. No one may carry on the occupation of a talent agency without a license from the Labor Commissioner, and the license number must appear in any advertisement soliciting talent (Labor Code 1700.5).
• Entertainment permits to employ minors. Employing a minor in the entertainment industry requires the Labor Commissioner's written consent in the form of a permit (Labor Code 1308.5).

Section numbers were checked against the California Legislative Information site on 2026-08-22. This is a description of the registry, not legal advice.

Practical uses:

• Screen vendors and subcontractors against the live registry before onboarding.
• Keep a compliance database current instead of re-searching before every job.
• Monitor expiration dates and workers' comp coverage across a supplier list.
• Research enforcement and registration trends across an industry.

What you get

One record per registrant (default), with every registration it holds:

{
  "registrant_key": "001t000000BPBQRAA5",
  "name": "Torrance Carwash, Inc.",
  "legal_entity_name": "Torrance Car Wash, Inc.",
  "registration_types": ["Car Wash"],
  "current_registrations": [
    {
      "registration_id": "a1Rcs000006ZqhpEAC",
      "record_name": "LR-1001239196",
      "registration_number": "CW-LR-1000877861",
      "registration_type": "Car Wash",
      "registration_type_label": "Car Wash",
      "service_type": "Renewal",
      "status": "Renewed",
      "effective_date": "2025-03-31",
      "expiration_date": "2026-03-31",
      "submitted_date": "2025-03-20",
      "legal_entity_name": "Torrance Car Wash, Inc.",
      "address_street": "2476 Sepulveda Blvd",
      "address_city": "Torrance",
      "address_state": "CA",
      "address_zip": "90501",
      "workers_comp_carrier": "Amtrust North America",
      "workers_comp_selection": "Insured by carrier",
      "workers_comp_expiration_date": "2025-07-01",
      "source_url": "https://cadir.my.salesforce-sites.com/RegistrationSearch/RegistrationDetails?id=a1Rcs000006ZqhpEAC"
    }
  ],
  "registrations": ["... every registration and renewal on file, newest first"],
  "registration_count": 7,
  "address_street": "2476 Sepulveda Blvd",
  "address_city": "Torrance",
  "address_state": "CA",
  "address_zip": "90501",
  "has_active_registration": true,
  "details": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-22T21:00:00+00:00"
}

A registrant with seven annual renewals is one record with seven registrations listed, not seven rows. current_registrations holds the newest registration in each type, which is the one you check when you are verifying standing today.

There is no phone number and no email address in this data, because DIR does not publish either one in this registry. What it does publish is the legal entity name, the physical business address, the registration number and status, the dates, and the workers' compensation carrier.

Input

Run it with no input to sweep all six registration types. Or narrow it.

Field	Type	Default	Description
registrationTypes	array of strings	[] (all six)	Car Wash, Farm Labor Contractor, Garment Manufacturers and Contractors, Janitorial, Talent Agency, Permit to Employ Minors.
statuses	array of strings	[] (all)	Keep only these DIR statuses: Approved, Renewed, Temporary Approved, Expired, Closed - Renewed, Closed - Denied, Closed - Revoked, Closed - Suspended, Closed_Suspended.
outputMode	registrants or registrations	registrants	Dataset shape, see below.
includeDetails	boolean	false	Also fetch each record's DIR detail page (DBA names, branch locations, bond history). Multiplies the request count, so leave it off for a full sweep.
verifyCoverage	boolean	true	Run a second sweep by expiration date and compare record IDs. Result goes to the VERIFICATION key-value record.
firstYear	integer	1990	Lower bound of the date slices. Raise it to sweep only recent years.
requestDelayMs	integer	250	Politeness delay per worker after each request.
maxConcurrency	integer	2	Maximum simultaneous requests.

Unknown registration types or statuses fail fast with a clear error instead of silently sweeping nothing.

Example runs

Quick test, one type, recent years only (finishes in seconds):

{ "registrationTypes": ["Car Wash"], "firstYear": 2024 }

Everyone currently registered as a garment manufacturer or contractor:

{ "registrationTypes": ["Garment Manufacturers and Contractors"], "statuses": ["Approved", "Renewed", "Temporary Approved"] }

Full sweep, all six types, all history (a few minutes):

{}

Flat registration rows for a warehouse load, with DBA names and branch addresses:

{ "outputMode": "registrations", "includeDetails": true, "firstYear": 2020 }

Output modes

registrants (default): one record per registrant, keyed on DIR's own account ID, with registrations (all of them, newest first), current_registrations (the newest per type), and has_active_registration.

registrations: one flat record per registration, exactly as DIR stores it, with the registrant's account ID and name on every row. Use this when you want a row per renewal, or when you are loading into a table that does not want nested arrays.

Data quality and the verification summary

• The sweep verifies itself. Records are collected in effective-date slices, then collected again in expiration-date slices, and the two sets of record IDs are compared per type inside the window both sweeps could see. The comparison is written to the VERIFICATION record in the run's key-value store: per-type counts, slices fetched, slices split, any failing slice, and the IDs found by one sweep but not the other. Records found only by the second sweep are merged into the dataset (merged_from_check), so the output is the union of both passes. Expect match: true on most runs; a handful of IDs under missing_from_check is usually DIR data changing between the two passes, and an ID under missing_from_primary is usually a DIR data-entry error (one farm labor registration carries an effective date in the year 2120, which only the expiration-date pass can see).
• A slice that is too large splits itself. DIR caps a response at 15 MB. A slice that trips the cap is halved and re-fetched, down to single days, and the split count is reported. A slice that still fails is recorded as an error and the rest of the sweep continues, rather than aborting the run.
• Dates are converted. DIR returns dates as epoch milliseconds; every date in the output is an ISO YYYY-MM-DD string in UTC.
• Statuses are DIR's own raw values, not normalized. Renewed, Approved, and Temporary Approved are the standings that count as active; has_active_registration also requires an expiration date on or after the scrape date.
• Registrants are matched on DIR's account ID. Where DIR publishes no account ID, the actor falls back to a SHA-1 of the normalized legal entity name and address, so those records still collapse instead of duplicating.
• Sole proprietors appear under personal names, and the physical business address can be a home address, especially in janitorial and farm labor. This is what the state publishes so that the parties required to verify registration can do so. Treat it accordingly, and do not treat this dataset as a consumer-marketing list.

Politeness

The actor is deliberately gentle: 2 concurrent requests by default, a 250 ms delay per worker, exponential backoff on server errors and timeouts, and a User-Agent that identifies the actor. Detail-page fetching is off by default so a normal run makes a few hundred requests, not tens of thousands.

Source

California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, Registration Search. This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by DIR or the State of California. Data accuracy is DIR's own; DIR's site disclaims accuracy and directs users to verify against the statute. Each record carries the timestamp it was scraped.