Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs
The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a wide array of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), employment State Disability Insurance (SDI), labor force investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state’s largest taxation company, the EDD also manages the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps employment records for more than 17 million California workers.
Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has workers located at hundreds of service places throughout California who supply many essential services to millions each year, consisting of:
– Assisting companies with their labor requirements.
– Helping job seekers get work.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-dependent.
– 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 Employment Opportunity Office
Legal Office
Administration Branch
The Administration Branch provides administrative assistance to the Department consisting of service operations planning and support services, personnel services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department’s annual budget.
Directorate Office
The Director’s Office manages the instructions of the Department to ensure that programs and services are consistent with the Department’s mission and objectives. In addition, the Director’s Office consists of:
Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination problems submitted versus the Department by staff members, employers, and candidates for employment and training, and provides expert services on all elements of equal job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal advice and support to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, 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 not able to work due to disease, injury, employment 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 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.
Information Technology Branch
The Information Technology Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated solutions within the Department. The Branch supplies data processing technical assistance and services for among the largest info technology environments in state federal government.
Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
This branch supplies key audit, investigation, survey, assessment, 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 regulatory requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in financial properties that go through the EDD yearly. Also serves as the EDD’s main liaison with state and federal elected officials and provides information, analyses, and policy assistance on legislative matters to the Labor and Agency, the Governor’s Office, and other governmental entities.
Public Affairs Branch
The Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, employment and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social media pages.
Tax Branch
Among the biggest taxation companies in the country, the Tax Branch manages 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, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax files and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a range of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and supplies individually services to employers to help them satisfy their tax obligations.
Learn more info about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.
Unemployment Insurance Branch
Established more than 60 years ago, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies benefits to individuals who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, have the ability to work, and are willing to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $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) operates among the largest public employment services operations on the planet providing services at hundreds of service locations statewide and linking one million job candidates with employers each year.
California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job applicant services consist of task recommendation, task search workshops, placement services, and special assistance to individuals who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.
Services to companies include matching job openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch likewise offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless job openings and the biggest pool of job candidates in California.
The WSB also administers a number of statewide labor employment force preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing grownups and youth for the labor force and developing the state’s economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to provide training services for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly understood as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a partnership of local, state, private, and public entities that offer extensive and employment innovative work services and resources to satisfy the requirements of the California labor force.
