The Employment Development Department (EDD) provides a wide range of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state's largest taxation company, the EDD likewise manages the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains work records for more than 17 million California workers.
Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has staff members situated at hundreds of service areas throughout California who offer numerous important services to millions each year, consisting of:
- Assisting employers with their labor requirements.
- Helping task candidates acquire employment.
- Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for adults, dislocated employees, and youth.
- Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming 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 Job Opportunity Office Legal Office
Administration Branch
The Administration Branch supplies administrative support to the Department including organization operations planning 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 Job Opportunity Office: employment Investigates and deals with discrimination complaints filed versus the Department by staff members, companies, and candidates for employment and training, and provides consultant services on all aspects of equivalent job opportunity. Legal Office: Provides legal recommendations and support 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 actually administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California employees who are not able to work due to illness, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays out more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) benefits and gets 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 individuals. Employers likewise have the option of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
Information Technology Branch
The Infotech Branch is accountable for planning policy development, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch offers information processing technical support and services for one of the largest infotech environments in state government.
Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
This branch supplies key audit, examination, study, assessment, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services help programs operate effectively and effectively, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and secure billions of dollars in monetary assets that go through the EDD yearly. Also works as the EDD's primary intermediary with state and federal elected officials and offers info, analyses, and policy guidance 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 consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Branch supplies outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD site and social media pages.
Tax Branch
Among the largest taxation firms 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 practically $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company payroll tax documents and remittances, and keeps records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch provides a variety of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and offers one-on-one services to companies to assist them fulfill their tax commitments.
Learn more details about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
Unemployment Insurance Branch
Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies advantages to people who have actually 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 almost $6 billion UI advantages and receives and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is funded by mandated company contributions. Additional services offered 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 worldwide providing services at hundreds of service areas statewide and linking one million job hunters with companies each year.
California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job applicant services include task referral, task search workshops, placement services, and unique support to individuals who are experiencing problem in finding work.
Services to companies consist of matching task openings with certified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless task openings and the largest pool of job candidates in California.
The WSB also administers a number of statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing adults and youth for the manpower and developing the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million annually 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 partnership of regional, state, personal, and public entities that offer comprehensive and ingenious work services and resources to satisfy the requirements of the California workforce.