Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

The Employment Development Department (EDD) provides a variety of services to millions of Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state’s biggest taxation company, the EDD likewise deals with the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains employment records for more than 17 million California workers.

Among the largest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at hundreds of service locations throughout California who offer numerous crucial services to millions each year, consisting of:

– Assisting employers with their labor needs.
– Helping job seekers acquire employment.
– Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for adults, dislocated employees, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in ending up being self-dependent.
– Helping jobless and disabled employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
– Supporting state activities and benefit programs by gathering and administering employment-related taxes (UI, SDI, Employment Training Tax, job and Personal Income Tax withholding).

EDD Branches

Administration Branch
Directorate Office Equal Employment Opportunity Office
Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch offers administrative support to the Department consisting of service operations planning and support services, personnel services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department’s annual spending plan.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office orchestrates the direction of the Department to ensure that programs and services are consistent with the Department’s mission and objectives. In addition, the Director’s Office includes:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and problems submitted versus the Department by workers, companies, and job applicants for work and training, and provides consultant services on all elements of equivalent job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal advice and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, job administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which offers partial wage replacement for California employees who are unable to work due to illness, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays out more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) advantages and gets and processes more than 927,000 claims. The DI Branch likewise administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed people. Employers also have the alternative of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Information Technology Branch is accountable for planning policy advancement, job system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch offers information processing technical assistance and services for one of the biggest infotech environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch provides crucial audit, examination, study, assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services aid programs run successfully and effectively, meet federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and secure billions of dollars in monetary properties that go through the EDD each year. Also acts as the EDD’s primary intermediary with state and federal chosen authorities and offers details, analyses, and policy guidance on legal matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor’s Office, and other governmental entities.

Public Affairs Branch

The Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD site and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

Among the largest tax collection firms in the nation, the Tax Branch deals with all administrative, education, client service, and enforcement functions for the audit and collection of UI, DI, Employment Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax (PIT) withholding. Each year, the EDD collects almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch provides a range of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and offers one-on-one services to employers to assist them satisfy their tax commitments.

Find out more information about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides advantages to individuals who have lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, have the ability to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays almost $6 billion UI advantages and receives and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is funded by mandated company contributions. Additional services supplied under the UI program include Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Workforce Services Branch

The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs one of the largest public work services operations in the world using services at hundreds of service areas statewide and linking one million job applicants with companies each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job seeker services consist of task recommendation, job search workshops, positioning services, and special support to individuals who are experiencing problem in finding work.

Services to companies include matching job openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch likewise uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the largest pool of task hunters in California.

The WSB likewise administers numerous statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing grownups and youth for the labor force and building the state’s economy. California distributes more than $394 million annually in federal funds to offer training services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly referred to as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of regional, state, private, and public entities that offer comprehensive and ingenious employment services and resources to fulfill the needs of the California labor force.