Overview

  • Founded Date April 30, 1952
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Company Description

Job Seeker Services Include Job Referral

The Employment Development Department (EDD) provides 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 firm, the EDD also deals with the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains employment records for more than 17 million California employees.

Among the largest state departments, the EDD has staff members located at numerous service areas throughout California who offer numerous crucial services to millions each year, employment consisting of:

– Assisting employers with their labor needs.
– Helping task hunters get work.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for adults, dislocated employees, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-dependent.
– Helping out of work 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 Employment Opportunity Office
Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch offers administrative support to the Department including company operations preparing and assistance services, human resource services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department’s annual budget plan.

Directorate Office

The Director’s Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to make sure that programs and services follow the Department’s mission and objectives. In addition, the Director’s Office includes:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and resolves discrimination complaints submitted against the Department by staff members, companies, and candidates for work and training, employment and offers specialist services on all elements of equivalent job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal recommendations and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and guideline.

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, 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 individuals. Employers also have the option of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Information Technology Branch is accountable for planning policy development, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated solutions within the Department. The Branch supplies information processing technical support and services for one of the largest infotech environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies crucial audit, investigation, survey, evaluation, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services help programs operate efficiently and effectively, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and secure billions of dollars in financial assets that pass through the EDD yearly. Also acts as the EDD’s primary intermediary with state and employment federal chosen authorities and supplies info, analyses, and policy assistance on legal 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 General Public Affairs Branch offers outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

One of the biggest tax collection companies in the country, the Tax Branch handles all administrative, education, customer care, 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 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 employees. The Branch offers a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, employment and supplies one-on-one services to companies to help them fulfill their tax obligations.

Discover more details about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years ago, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides benefits to people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, employment have the ability to work, and are ready 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 employer 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 numerous service locations statewide and linking one million task seekers with employers each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job candidate services include job referral, task search workshops, positioning services, and special assistance to people who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.

Services to employers consist of matching task openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch likewise provides CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the biggest swimming pool of job hunters in California.

The WSB also administers several statewide labor force preparation programs and efforts that concentrate on preparing adults and youth for the labor force and employment constructing the state’s economy. California disperses more than $394 million each year in federal funds to services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of regional, state, private, and public entities that supply detailed and innovative employment services and resources to fulfill the needs of the California labor force.