Texas Roofer arrested in Florida for helping hurricane victims fix their homes

This is a prime example of how Occupational Licensing is not about safety or ensuring competence, but about erecting protectionist barriers within the labor market of a state. Mr Duque should not be barred from helping people in another state, and it’s for this reason and for every other skilled worker prevented by the state from engaging in honest work that we call for the full reciprocity of existing licenses from any state to any state, and for the elimination of non bona fide occupational requirements for any licensing regime in the Commonwealth of Virginia.