Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a wide array of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce financial investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state’s biggest taxation firm, the EDD also handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps employment records for more than 17 million California employees.

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

– Assisting companies with their labor requirements.
task candidates obtain work.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged receivers in ending up being self-sufficient.
– Helping jobless and handicapped 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, and Personal Income Tax withholding).

EDD Branches

Administration Branch
Directorate Office Equal Employment Opportunity Office
Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch supplies administrative assistance to the Department consisting of company operations preparing and assistance services, human resource services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department’s yearly spending plan.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office manages the instructions of the Department to guarantee that programs and services are constant with the Department’s objective and goals. In addition, the Director’s Office consists of:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and resolves discrimination complaints submitted versus the Department by staff members, companies, and candidates for work and training, and supplies expert services on all aspects of equal job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal guidance and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California workers who are not able to work due to health problem, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) benefits and gets and processes more than 927,000 claims. The DI Branch also administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed individuals. Employers likewise have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Infotech Branch is responsible for preparing policy advancement, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch provides information processing technical support and services for one of the biggest information innovation environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and employment Compliance Branch

This branch supplies essential audit, investigation, survey, evaluation, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering companies. These services assistance programs operate effectively and effectively, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in financial assets that go through the EDD each year. Also works as the EDD’s main intermediary with state and federal chosen authorities and offers info, 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 General Public Affairs Branch is made up of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch offers outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD site and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

Among the largest tax collection agencies in the country, the Tax Branch handles 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 gathers practically $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company payroll tax files and remittances, and keeps records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch provides a variety of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to employers to help them satisfy their tax responsibilities.

Learn more information about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years ago, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers benefits to people who have actually 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 out almost $6 billion UI benefits and receives and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is moneyed 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 offering services at hundreds of service locations statewide and linking one million job seekers with employers each year.

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

Services to companies consist of matching task openings with certified prospects and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch likewise uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless task openings and the biggest swimming pool of task candidates in California.

The WSB also administers several statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing adults and youth for the labor force and building the state’s economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to supply training services for adults, dislocated employees, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of regional, state, personal, and public entities that offer thorough and innovative work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California labor force.