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Job Seeker Services Include Job Referral

The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a wide array of services to millions of Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce financial investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state’s biggest tax collection agency, the EDD likewise handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and preserves work records for more than 17 million California employees.

Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees located at hundreds of service areas throughout California who supply numerous important services to millions each year, including:

– Assisting companies with their labor needs.
– Helping job hunters obtain work.
– Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in ending up being self-dependent.
– Helping out of work and handicapped workers 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 assistance to the Department including organization operations preparing and employment support services, personnel services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department’s yearly budget plan.

Directorate Office

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

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination problems filed against the Department by employees, companies, and applicants for employment and training, and offers specialist services on all aspects of equal job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal advice and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and regulation.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which offers partial wage replacement for California employees who are unable 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 people. Employers also have the alternative of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Branch

The Information Technology 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 assistance and services for one of the largest info technology environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies crucial audit, examination, study, examination, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services assistance programs operate effectively and effectively, meet federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and secure billions of dollars in monetary possessions that pass through the EDD annually. Also acts as the EDD’s primary liaison with state and federal chosen authorities and offers information, 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 made up of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch provides outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD site and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

One of the largest taxation companies in the country, the Tax Branch deals with all administrative, education, client service, and enforcement functions for employment 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 preserves records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and supplies individually services to employers to help them fulfill their tax commitments.

Find out more information about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years ago, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies advantages 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 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 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 numerous service places statewide and linking one million job candidates with companies each year.

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

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

The WSB also administers numerous statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing adults and youth for the manpower and constructing the state’s economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to supply training services for adults, 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 collaboration of regional, state, personal, and public entities that offer extensive and innovative work services and resources to satisfy the requirements of the California workforce.