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 investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state’s biggest taxation firm, the EDD likewise handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and preserves employment records for more than 17 million California employees.

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

– Assisting employers with their labor needs.
– Helping job candidates get work.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in ending up being self-dependent.
– Helping out of work and handicapped 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 Job Opportunity Office
Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch supplies administrative assistance to the Department including business operations preparing and support services, personnel services for EDD workers, and accounting for the budget.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office orchestrates the direction of the Department to guarantee that programs and services follow the Department’s mission and goals. In addition, the Director’s Office includes:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and deals with discrimination grievances filed versus the Department by employees, employers, and applicants for employment and training, and supplies consultant services on all aspects of equal employment opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions and assistance 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 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) 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 people. Employers likewise have the option of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Infotech Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system upkeep, support, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch offers data processing technical assistance and services for among the biggest infotech environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch provides key audit, investigation, study, evaluation, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services help programs run efficiently and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and secure billions of dollars in financial assets that go through the EDD every year. Also acts as the EDD’s main intermediary with state and federal chosen officials and offers details, 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 Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch provides outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

One of the biggest tax collection companies in the country, the Tax Branch deals with 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, employment consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, employment processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax files and remittances, and keeps records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and supplies individually services to employers to help them satisfy their tax commitments.

Discover more details about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers advantages to people who have lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, are able to work, and are prepared to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out almost $6 billion UI advantages and receives and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated company contributions. Additional services offered under the UI program consist of Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Workforce Services Branch

The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs one of the biggest public work services operations on the planet using services at numerous service places statewide and connecting one million job candidates with companies each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job hunter services include job referral, job search workshops, positioning services, employment and unique help to individuals who are experiencing problem in finding work.

Services to companies include matching job openings with qualified prospects and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of job openings and the largest pool of job hunters in California.

The WSB likewise administers a number of statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing adults and youth for the manpower and developing the state’s economy. California disperses more than $394 million each year in federal funds to offer training services for grownups, dislocated employees, 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, private, and public entities that offer comprehensive and ingenious employment services and resources to fulfill the requirements of the California workforce.