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 work 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 supply lots of essential services to millions each year, consisting of:

– Assisting employers with their labor needs.
– Helping task hunters get work.
– Administering the federally-funded labor force financial investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-sufficient.
– Helping out of work 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 Employment Opportunity Office
Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch provides administrative assistance to the Department including company operations preparing and support services, human resource services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department’s yearly budget.

Directorate Office

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

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination grievances submitted against the Department by employees, companies, and candidates for employment and training, and provides specialist services on all aspects of equal work chance.
Legal Office: Provides legal recommendations and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which offers 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 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 choice of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Infotech Branch is responsible for preparing policy development, system maintenance, support, job operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch supplies data processing technical support and services for among the biggest info technology environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies essential audit, investigation, survey, assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services aid programs run successfully and efficiently, meet federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary assets that pass through the EDD annually. Also serves as the EDD’s primary liaison with state and federal chosen officials and provides information, analyses, and policy assistance on legislative 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 consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch offers outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social media pages.

Tax Branch

One of the biggest tax collection companies in the nation, the Tax Branch manages all administrative, education, customer care, 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, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company payroll tax documents and remittances, and keeps records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to companies to help them meet their tax obligations.

Discover more information about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides advantages 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 ready to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $6 billion UI advantages and receives and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated company contributions. Additional services offered under the UI program include Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Workforce Services Branch

The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs among the biggest public employment services operations in the world providing services at hundreds of service areas statewide and connecting one million task seekers with employers each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for job work services. Job hunter services consist of job referral, job search workshops, placement services, and special help to individuals who are experiencing problem in finding work.

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

The WSB also administers several statewide workforce preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing adults and youth for the manpower and developing the state’s economy. California disperses more than $394 million annually in federal funds to provide training services for job grownups, dislocated workers, 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 provide extensive and innovative work services and resources to meet the needs of the California workforce.