Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

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

Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has staff members situated at hundreds of service locations throughout California who provide lots of essential services to millions each year, including:

– Assisting companies with their labor requirements.
– Helping job applicants get work.
– Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-dependent.
– Helping jobless and handicapped 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 including company operations planning and support services, human resource services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department’s annual budget.

Directorate Office

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

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination complaints filed against the Department by employees, employers, and candidates for employment and training, and offers consultant services on all aspects of equivalent work chance.
Legal Office: Provides legal guidance and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for California workers who are not able to work due to illness, 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 likewise administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed individuals. Employers also have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Infotech Branch is responsible for planning policy development, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated solutions within the Department. The Branch supplies information processing technical assistance and services for employment among the biggest info technology environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch provides essential audit, examination, survey, assessment, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services help programs operate effectively and effectively, meet federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and secure billions of dollars in financial properties that travel through the EDD each year. Also functions as the EDD’s main intermediary with state and federal chosen authorities and provides details, analyses, and employment policy assistance on legislative matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, employment 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 Public Affairs Branch provides outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD website and social media pages.

Tax Branch

Among the biggest taxation agencies in the country, 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 nearly $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, more than 27 million employer 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 supplies individually services to employers to help them meet their tax obligations.

Learn more details about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers 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 employment. Each year, the EDD pays almost $6 billion UI benefits and receives and processes more than 2 million 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) operates among the biggest public employment services operations in the world using services at hundreds of service locations statewide and linking one million task seekers with companies each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job hunter services include job referral, job search workshops, positioning services, and special assistance to people who are experiencing trouble in finding work.

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

The WSB likewise administers a number of statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing adults and employment youth for the workforce and developing 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 referred to as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of regional, state, personal, and public entities that supply extensive and innovative work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California workforce.