Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a wide range of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce 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 preserves employment records for more than 17 million California workers.

One of the largest state departments, the EDD has employees located at numerous service places throughout California who supply numerous essential services to millions each year, including:

– Assisting companies with their labor needs.
– Helping job applicants acquire work.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-sufficient.
– Helping unemployed and handicapped employees 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 Job Opportunity Office
Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch offers administrative assistance to the Department including operations planning and support services, human resource services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department’s yearly budget plan.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office manages the instructions of the Department to make sure that programs and services follow the Department’s objective and goals. In addition, the Director’s Office consists of:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination problems filed against the Department by workers, employers, and applicants for employment and training, and supplies expert services on all elements of equivalent job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal guidance and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for California employees 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 receives and processes more than 927,000 claims. The DI Branch likewise administers the Paid Family Leave program and employment DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed people. Employers likewise have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Information Technology Branch is responsible for preparing policy advancement, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch provides data processing technical assistance and services for one of the largest infotech environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch provides essential audit, investigation, survey, examination, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services help programs run efficiently and effectively, employment satisfy federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary properties that go through the EDD each year. Also functions as the EDD’s primary liaison with state and federal chosen officials and provides info, analyses, and employment policy guidance on legislative matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor’s Office, and employment other governmental entities.

Public Affairs Branch

The Public Affairs Branch is comprised of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

One of the largest taxation agencies in the country, the Tax Branch deals with 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, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax files and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch provides a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and supplies individually services to employers to assist them fulfill 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 offers benefits to individuals who have actually lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, are able to work, and are willing to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays almost $6 billion UI benefits and receives and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is funded 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 one of the largest public work services operations worldwide offering services at numerous service locations statewide and connecting one million job applicants with employers each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job hunter services consist of job recommendation, task search workshops, positioning services, employment and special support to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.

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

The WSB likewise administers numerous statewide workforce preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the labor force and developing the state’s economy. California distributes more than $394 million annually in federal funds to supply training services for grownups, 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 local, state, private, and public entities that supply extensive and innovative work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California workforce.