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Overview

  • Founded Date October 11, 2015

Company Description

Job Seeker Services Include Job Referral

The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a wide range of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce financial investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state’s largest taxation agency, the EDD also deals with the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains work records for more than 17 million California employees.

Among the largest state departments, the EDD has employees located at numerous service places throughout California who provide numerous essential services to millions each year, including:

– Assisting employers with their labor needs.
– Helping task hunters get employment.
– Administering the federally-funded labor force financial investment programs for adults, dislocated employees, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-sufficient.
– Helping jobless and employment handicapped employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
– Supporting state activities and advantage 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 business operations planning and assistance services, employment human resource services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department’s annual budget plan.

Directorate Office

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

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination grievances filed versus the Department by staff members, companies, and candidates for employment and training, and provides specialist services on all elements of equal job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, agreements, employment legislation, and guideline.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for California workers 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) advantages 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 people. Employers also have the alternative of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Information Technology Branch is responsible for planning policy advancement, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch offers data processing technical support and services for one of the biggest infotech environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies key audit, investigation, study, evaluation, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services assistance programs effectively and efficiently, meet federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and secure billions of dollars in monetary assets that travel through the EDD every year. Also acts as the EDD’s primary liaison with state and federal elected authorities 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 consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and employment Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch provides outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD website and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

One of the largest taxation firms in the nation, the Tax Branch manages 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, employment the EDD collects nearly $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and employment remittances, and keeps records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch offers a variety of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and supplies one-on-one services to employers to help them satisfy their tax obligations.

Learn more details about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides advantages to people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, are able to work, and are prepared to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays almost $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 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 work services operations on the planet providing services at numerous service areas statewide and linking one million task applicants with employers each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job candidate services consist of job referral, job search workshops, positioning services, and special help to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.

Services to employers consist of matching task openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless job openings and the largest swimming pool of task candidates in California.

The WSB also administers numerous statewide workforce preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing adults and youth for the labor force and developing the state’s economy. California disperses more than $394 million yearly in federal funds to offer training services for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously understood as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, personal, and public entities that offer detailed and innovative employment services and resources to satisfy the requirements of the California workforce.