Job Seeker Services Include Job Referral

The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a wide array 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 tax collection company, the EDD likewise handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains work records for more than 17 million California workers.

One of the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees located at hundreds of service locations throughout California who provide many essential services to millions each year, consisting of:

– Assisting companies with their labor requirements.
– Helping job applicants obtain employment.
– Administering the federally-funded labor force financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-sufficient.
– Helping unemployed 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 Employment Opportunity Office
Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch offers administrative support to the Department including service operations planning and support services, personnel services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department’s yearly spending plan.

Office

The Director’s Office manages the direction of the Department to ensure that programs and services are constant with the Department’s mission and objectives. In addition, the Director’s Office consists of:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and employment solves discrimination complaints submitted against the Department by employees, companies, and applicants for employment and training, and provides consultant services on all aspects of equivalent work opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, employment and employment policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California workers 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 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 also have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Infotech Branch is responsible for preparing policy development, system upkeep, support, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch supplies data processing technical support and services for one of the largest information technology environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies key audit, examination, survey, evaluation, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services aid programs run efficiently and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in financial assets that pass through the EDD every year. Also serves as the EDD’s main liaison with state and federal elected officials and offers info, 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 General Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD site and social media pages.

Tax Branch

One of the largest tax collection firms in the nation, the Tax Branch handles all administrative, education, client service, and enforcement functions for the audit and collection of UI, employment 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 documents and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch provides a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to companies to assist them satisfy their tax obligations.

Find out more info about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies benefits to individuals who have actually lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, and want to accept employment. 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 moneyed by mandated company contributions. Additional services supplied under the UI program consist of Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Workforce Services Branch

The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) operates among the biggest public work services operations worldwide offering services at numerous service places statewide and linking one million job hunters with companies each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job candidate services include job referral, job search workshops, placement services, and special support to people who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.

Services to employers include matching job openings with certified prospects and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch likewise uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the biggest pool of task applicants in California.

The WSB likewise administers several 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 every year in federal funds to offer training services for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly referred to as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, personal, and public entities that provide detailed and ingenious work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California labor force.