Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a wide array of services to millions of 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 biggest taxation company, the EDD likewise handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps employment records for more than 17 million California employees.

Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at numerous service places throughout California who provide many essential services to millions each year, including:

– Assisting employers with their labor employment needs.
– Helping job applicants acquire employment.
– Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-dependent.
– Helping jobless and disabled employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
– Supporting state activities and advantage programs by collecting and administering employment-related taxes (UI, SDI, Employment Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax withholding).

EDD Branches

Administration Branch
Directorate Office Equal Job Opportunity Office
Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch provides administrative support to the Department including business operations preparing and support services, human resource services for EDD employees, and accounting for employment the Department’s yearly budget plan.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to make sure that programs and services follow the Department’s objective and goals. In addition, the Director’s Office consists of:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination grievances filed against the Department by employees, employment employers, and applicants for employment and training, and supplies expert services on all aspects of equal work opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal recommendations and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, employment administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and regulation.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for California workers who are unable to work due to health problem, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) advantages 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 electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Information Technology Branch is accountable for planning policy advancement, system upkeep, support, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch supplies data processing technical support and services for one of the largest details technology environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies key audit, examination, survey, examination, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services aid programs operate successfully and effectively, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in financial properties that travel through the EDD annually. Also acts as the EDD’s primary liaison with state and federal elected authorities and provides details, analyses, and policy assistance 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 comprised of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD website and social media pages.

Tax Branch

One of the largest tax collection agencies in the nation, the Tax Branch manages all administrative, education, customer support, 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 practically $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch provides a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to employers to help them satisfy their tax obligations.

Learn more details about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers advantages to individuals who have lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, employment have the ability to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays almost $6 billion UI advantages and gets and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is funded by mandated company 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 employment services operations on the planet offering services at hundreds of service places statewide and linking one million task candidates with companies each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job seeker services consist of task recommendation, task search workshops, positioning services, and unique assistance to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.

Services to employers consist of matching task openings with certified prospects and employment specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch also uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of job openings and the largest pool of task candidates in California.

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