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Assisting Employers with Their Labor Needs
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The Employment Development Department (EDD) provides a broad range of services to millions of 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 firm, the EDD likewise deals with the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps work records for more than 17 million California workers.
Among the largest state departments, the EDD has staff members situated at numerous service places throughout California who provide lots of important services to millions each year, including:
- Assisting companies with their labor needs.
- Helping task candidates obtain employment.
- Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for adults, dislocated employees, and youth.
- Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-sufficient.
- Helping unemployed and handicapped employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
- Supporting state activities and benefit programs by collecting 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 business operations planning and support services, human resource services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department's annual budget.
Directorate Office
The Director's Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to that programs and services are constant with the Department's objective and goals. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:
Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and resolves discrimination grievances submitted versus the Department by staff members, employers, and applicants for work and training, and offers specialist services on all aspects of equal job opportunity. Legal Office: Provides legal guidance and support to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and regulation.
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 health problem, 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 also 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.
Infotech Branch
The Information Technology Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch offers data processing technical support and services for one of the biggest details innovation environments in state federal government.
Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
This branch offers key audit, investigation, survey, assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering companies. These services assistance programs operate successfully and efficiently, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and secure billions of dollars in financial assets that travel through the EDD every year. Also acts as the EDD's main liaison with state and federal elected officials and offers info, 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 comprised of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch offers 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 firms in the nation, the Tax Branch manages all administrative, education, customer 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 gathers almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of 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 workers. The Branch offers a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and offers individually services to companies to help them fulfill their tax commitments.
Find out more information about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
Unemployment Insurance Branch
Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers advantages to individuals who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, are able to work, and are willing to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out almost $6 billion UI benefits and receives and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated employer 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 largest public work services operations worldwide offering services at hundreds of service areas statewide and linking one million task hunters with employers each year.
California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job hunter services include job recommendation, job search workshops, funsilo.date positioning services, and unique support to people who are experiencing trouble in finding work.
Services to companies include matching job openings with certified prospects and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch likewise uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless job openings and the biggest pool of job candidates in California.
The WSB likewise administers numerous statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the labor force and building the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million annually in federal funds to supply 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 regional, state, private, and public entities that supply extensive and ingenious work services and resources to meet the requirements of the California labor force.