Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

The Employment Development Department (EDD) provides a wide range of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce financial investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state’s biggest tax collection firm, the EDD also handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains employment records for more than 17 million California workers.

One of the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at numerous service locations throughout California who supply numerous crucial services to millions each year, consisting of:

– Assisting companies with their labor needs.
– Helping task hunters acquire employment.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-sufficient.
– Helping out of work and handicapped 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 offers administrative assistance to the Department consisting of service operations preparing and support services, personnel services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department’s annual budget.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office orchestrates the direction of the Department to ensure that programs and services are consistent with the Department’s objective and objectives. In addition, the Director’s Office includes:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination complaints filed versus the Department by employees, companies, and candidates for employment and training, and provides consultant services on all aspects of equivalent work opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal advice and support to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and regulation.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California workers who are not able to work due to health problem, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays out 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 individuals. Employers likewise have the option of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Information Technology Branch is accountable for preparing policy development, system maintenance, assistance, operations, employment and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch provides information processing technical assistance and services for among the largest details innovation environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch offers essential audit, investigation, survey, assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services aid programs operate successfully and effectively, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in financial possessions that go through the EDD annually. Also functions as the EDD’s main intermediary with state and federal elected officials and supplies details, 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 comprised of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, communications, employment training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD website and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

Among the largest tax collection firms in the nation, the Tax Branch handles 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 almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, more than 27 million company payroll tax files and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch offers a range of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to employers to help them satisfy 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 people who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, and want to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays out almost $6 billion UI benefits and receives and employment 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) runs among the largest public employment services operations worldwide using services at hundreds of service places statewide and linking one million job hunters with companies each year.

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

Services to companies include matching job openings with certified prospects and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch likewise offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the biggest pool of job candidates in California.

The WSB likewise administers a number of statewide workforce preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing adults and youth for the manpower and building the state’s economy. California disperses more than $394 million annually in federal funds to offer training services for adults, dislocated employees, employment and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly referred to as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of regional, state, personal, and public entities that supply detailed and ingenious work services and resources to meet the needs of the California workforce.