When you are hired as licensed electrician, your license is representation to an employer that you have acquired a certain minimum level of trade related skill and competence and are capable of performing at least minimal code compliant installation practices, reading plans and following written or verbal instructions, etc…
An electrical contractor can be found not to be responsible, or at least not entirely, for work performed by a licensed employee if it can be shown that the employee did the work without the direct knowledge, instruction or supervision of the electrical contractor. This is not a scapegoat for contractors, but you can sometimes be held accountable, at least in part, for the work you perform as an employee.
Also, at least to me, it would seem more logical that an individual states “rights” would be better served and protected through actual uniform state regulation and licensing requirements, not through segmented, non-standardardized county and city jurisdictional regulation and licensing.
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