The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a wide range of services to millions of Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), labor force financial investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state's largest taxation firm, the EDD likewise handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and preserves employment records for more than 17 million California workers.
One of the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees located at hundreds of service places throughout California who offer many crucial services to millions each year, consisting of:
- Assisting companies with their labor requirements.
- Helping task hunters get work.
- Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth.
- Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-sufficient.
- Helping unemployed and disabled 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 organization operations preparing and assistance services, personnel services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department's annual budget.
Directorate Office
The Director's Office manages the instructions of the Department to guarantee that programs and services follow the Department's objective and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office includes:
Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination complaints submitted versus the Department by staff members, employers, and candidates for work and training, and provides expert services on all elements of equal work chance. Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and guideline.
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 more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) advantages 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 alternative of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
Infotech Branch
The Information Technology Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch offers information processing technical assistance and services for among the biggest information innovation environments in state government.
Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
This branch provides key audit, investigation, survey, assessment, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services aid programs operate efficiently and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in financial assets that pass through the EDD each year. Also serves as the EDD's main liaison with state and federal chosen authorities and offers details, analyses, and policy guidance 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 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 handles the EDD website and social media pages.
Tax Branch
Among the biggest taxation firms in the nation, the manages 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, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company 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 provides individually services to companies to help them meet their tax commitments.
Discover more info about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
Unemployment Insurance Branch
Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides benefits to people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, and employment want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $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 provided under the UI program consist of 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 in the world offering services at numerous service places statewide and connecting one million task hunters with employers each year.
California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job candidate services consist of task recommendation, task search workshops, placement services, and unique help to people who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.
Services to employers consist of matching job openings with certified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the largest swimming pool of job candidates in California.
The WSB also administers several statewide labor employment force preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing adults and youth for the workforce and building the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to provide training services for adults, dislocated employees, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly known as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, private, and public entities that offer comprehensive and ingenious work services and resources to satisfy the requirements of the California labor force.