Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a variety 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 biggest tax collection company, the EDD also deals with the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps work records for more than 17 million California workers.

One of the largest state departments, employment the EDD has workers located at hundreds of service locations throughout California who supply lots of essential services to millions each year, consisting of:

- Assisting companies with their labor needs.
- Helping job candidates get employment.
- Administering the federally-funded labor force financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
- Assisting disadvantaged receivers in ending up being self-dependent.
- Helping unemployed and handicapped workers through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
- Supporting state activities and benefit 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 support to the Department consisting of service operations planning and assistance services, human resource services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department's yearly spending plan.

Directorate Office

The Director's Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to make sure that programs and services follow the Department's mission and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and deals with discrimination complaints filed versus the Department by employees, companies, and applicants for employment and training, and provides expert services on all aspects of equal job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal recommendations and support to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, employment agreements, legislation, and policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, employment which supplies partial wage replacement for California employees who are not able to work due to illness, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in 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 people. Employers likewise have the alternative of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Information Technology Branch is accountable for planning policy advancement, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch provides data processing technical assistance and services for among the biggest information technology environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch offers essential audit, examination, survey, assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services aid programs operate effectively and effectively, meet federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and secure billions of dollars in financial assets that pass through the EDD yearly. Also acts as the EDD's primary liaison with state and federal elected officials and provides info, 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 Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, employment and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch offers outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD site and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

One of the biggest taxation firms in the nation, the Tax Branch handles all administrative, education, consumer 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 almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch uses a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, employment and offers individually services to companies to help them meet their tax commitments.

Learn more information about EDD's Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies advantages to individuals who have lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, and want 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 funded by mandated employer 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) operates one of the largest public work services operations worldwide using services at hundreds of service areas statewide and linking one million job applicants with companies each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job seeker services include job referral, task search workshops, placement services, and unique support to individuals who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.

Services to employers consist of matching job openings with certified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch likewise provides CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the largest pool of task hunters in California.

The WSB also administers a number of statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the labor force and developing the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to supply training services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, personal, and public entities that offer detailed and ingenious employment services and resources to meet the needs of the California workforce.