Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

The Employment Development Department (EDD) provides a wide array of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), labor force financial investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state’s largest tax collection company, the EDD also manages the audit and collection of payroll taxes and preserves employment records for more than 17 million California employees.

One of the largest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at numerous service areas throughout California who supply lots of essential services to millions each year, including:

– Assisting companies with their labor requirements.
– Helping job seekers get employment.
– Administering the federally-funded labor force financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in ending up being self-sufficient.
– Helping unemployed and disabled workers through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
– Supporting state activities and advantage 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 support to the Department consisting of organization operations preparing and services, human resource services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department’s annual budget plan.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office manages the direction of the Department to make sure that programs and services are constant with the Department’s mission and goals. In addition, the Director’s Office includes:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and resolves discrimination complaints filed versus the Department by employees, employers, and candidates for work and training, and provides consultant services on all elements of equivalent employment chance.
Legal Office: Provides legal recommendations and assistance 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 unable to work due to disease, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) benefits and receives 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.

Infotech Branch

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

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies essential audit, investigation, study, employment assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services assistance programs run successfully and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and secure billions of dollars in financial possessions that travel through the EDD yearly. Also functions as the EDD’s primary intermediary with state and federal elected officials and provides info, analyses, and policy guidance on legislative matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor’s Office, and other governmental entities.

Public Affairs Branch

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

Tax Branch

Among the biggest tax collection companies in the nation, the Tax Branch handles all administrative, education, client service, and employment enforcement functions for the audit and collection of UI, DI, Employment Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax (PIT) withholding. Each year, the EDD collects nearly $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company payroll tax files and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch offers a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to employers to help them meet their tax responsibilities.

Learn more details about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies benefits to individuals who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, have the ability to work, and are prepared to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $6 billion UI advantages and gets and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is funded by mandated employer contributions. Additional services provided under the UI program consist of Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Workforce Services Branch

The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs one of the biggest public work services operations worldwide providing services at numerous service locations statewide and linking one million job candidates with employers each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job candidate services include job recommendation, task search workshops, placement services, and unique help to people who are experiencing trouble in finding work.

Services to employers include matching job openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the biggest pool of task seekers in California.

The WSB likewise administers several statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the workforce and building the state’s economy. California disperses more than $394 million each year in federal funds to offer training services for adults, dislocated employees, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a partnership of local, state, personal, and public entities that offer thorough and employment ingenious work services and resources to fulfill the needs of the California workforce.