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Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs

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

Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at hundreds of service locations throughout California who offer numerous important services to millions each year, including:

– Assisting companies with their labor employment requirements.
– Helping job candidates get work.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged receivers in ending up being self-dependent.
– Helping out of work and disabled workers 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 organization operations planning and assistance services, personnel services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department’s yearly budget.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to ensure that programs and services follow the Department’s objective and objectives. In addition, the Director’s Office consists of:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and employment fixes discrimination problems filed against the Department by employees, employers, and applicants for work and training, and offers 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 policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California workers who are unable to work due to illness, 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 likewise administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed people. Employers also have the choice of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Information Technology Branch is accountable for planning policy development, system upkeep, support, operations, and oversight of automated solutions within the Department. The Branch supplies information processing technical assistance and services for one of the biggest info innovation environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch offers essential audit, investigation, survey, evaluation, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services aid programs run efficiently and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and employment regulative requirements, and employment protect billions of dollars in monetary possessions that pass through the EDD every year. Also serves as the EDD’s main liaison with state and federal elected officials and offers information, analyses, and policy assistance on legal 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 made up of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and employment social media pages.

Tax Branch

Among 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 collects nearly $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, employment processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch offers a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and supplies individually services to employers to assist them satisfy their tax obligations.

Find out more information about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides advantages to individuals who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, are able to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out almost $6 billion UI benefits and gets and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated company 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) runs among the largest public work services operations in the world using services at numerous service locations statewide and linking one million job hunters with companies each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job applicant services include task recommendation, task search workshops, positioning services, and unique help to individuals who are experiencing trouble in finding work.

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

The WSB also administers numerous statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing grownups and youth for the manpower and constructing the state’s economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to offer training services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth through the Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of regional, state, private, and public entities that supply detailed and innovative employment services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California labor force.