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The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a variety of services to countless 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 tax collection agency, the EDD also handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps work records for more than 17 million California employees.

Among the largest state departments, the EDD has at numerous service areas throughout California who offer lots of crucial services to millions each year, including:

- Assisting employers with their labor needs.

Helping job seekers get employment.
Administering the federally-funded labor force financial investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-dependent.
Helping jobless 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 Job Opportunity Office Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch offers administrative support to the Department consisting of business operations preparing and assistance services, human resource services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department's annual budget plan.

Directorate Office

The Director's Office manages the instructions of the Department to make sure that programs and services are consistent with the Department's objective and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: employment Investigates and fixes discrimination complaints filed against the Department by workers, companies, and candidates for employment and training, and provides specialist services on all elements of equivalent job opportunity. Legal Office: Provides legal recommendations and support 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 provides partial wage replacement for California employees who are unable to work due to disease, 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 likewise have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Infotech Branch is responsible for preparing policy development, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch supplies data processing technical assistance and services for among the largest details technology environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies crucial audit, examination, survey, examination, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services help programs operate efficiently and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary possessions that travel through the EDD each year. Also acts as the EDD's main liaison with state and federal elected authorities and offers information, analyses, and policy assistance on legislative 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 offers outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and employment handles the EDD website and social media pages.

Tax Branch

One of the largest taxation companies in the nation, the Tax Branch handles 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 employer payroll tax files and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and offers individually services to employers to assist them satisfy their tax obligations.

Find out more details about EDD's Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides advantages to individuals who have lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, have the ability 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 biggest public employment services operations worldwide offering services at hundreds of service locations statewide and linking one million task seekers with companies each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job applicant services consist of job recommendation, task search workshops, placement services, and special help to people who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.

Services to employers consist of matching job openings with qualified prospects and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch also offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the largest pool of job hunters in California.

The WSB also administers a number of statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the workforce and building the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million annually in federal funds to offer training services for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly understood as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, personal, and public entities that provide detailed and innovative employment services and resources to meet the needs of the California labor force.