Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a variety of services to millions of 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 taxation company, the EDD also manages the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps records for more than 17 million California employees.

One of the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees located at hundreds of service areas throughout California who supply many important services to millions each year, consisting of:

– Assisting companies with their labor requirements.
– Helping task hunters get work.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-sufficient.
– Helping unemployed and handicapped employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
– Supporting state activities and benefit 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 assistance to the Department consisting of business operations planning and support services, personnel services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department’s annual budget plan.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office manages the direction of the Department to make sure that programs and services are consistent with the Department’s mission and goals. In addition, the Director’s Office consists of:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination complaints submitted versus the Department by employees, employers, and candidates for employment and training, and supplies expert services on all elements of equivalent job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions and support to the Director employment and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and guideline.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for employment California employees who are not able to work due to disease, employment injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) benefits and receives and processes more than 927,000 claims. The DI Branch also administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed individuals. Employers also have the alternative of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Infotech Branch is accountable for preparing policy development, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch offers data processing technical assistance and services for one of the largest infotech environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies essential audit, investigation, survey, evaluation, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services help programs run effectively and effectively, meet federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary properties that pass through the EDD yearly. Also functions as the EDD’s main liaison with state and federal elected officials and supplies information, analyses, and policy assistance on legal matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, employment the Governor’s Office, and other governmental entities.

Public Affairs Branch

The Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD site and employment social networks pages.

Tax Branch

Among the largest taxation 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 gathers nearly $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, employment processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax files and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch provides a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and offers individually services to employers to help them fulfill their tax commitments.

Learn more information about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years ago, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers benefits to individuals who have actually lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, have the ability to work, and are prepared to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $6 billion UI benefits and gets and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated employer contributions. Additional services provided 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 biggest public work services operations worldwide providing services at hundreds of service areas statewide and connecting one million task hunters with employers each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job candidate services consist of job referral, task search workshops, placement services, and unique assistance to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.

Services to companies 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 largest swimming pool of job hunters in California.

The WSB also administers a number of statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing adults and youth for the labor force and developing the state’s economy. California disperses more than $394 million yearly in federal funds to provide training services for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously known as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of regional, state, private, and public entities that offer thorough and ingenious employment services and resources to satisfy the requirements of the California labor employment force.