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Job Seeker Services Include Job Referral

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

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

– Assisting companies with their labor needs.
– Helping job candidates obtain employment.
– Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
– Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-sufficient.
– 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 support to the Department consisting of company operations planning and assistance services, human resource services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department’s yearly budget.

Directorate Office

The orchestrates the direction of the Department to guarantee that programs and services follow the Department’s objective and goals. In addition, the Director’s Office includes:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination problems filed against the Department by staff members, companies, and candidates for work and training, and offers consultant services on all aspects of equal employment opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal advice and support to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and regulation.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which provides 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 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 individuals. Employers likewise have the alternative of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Infotech Branch is accountable for planning policy development, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch provides data processing technical support and services for one of the biggest infotech environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch provides key audit, examination, study, examination, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering companies. These services help programs run efficiently and effectively, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary assets that pass through the EDD every year. Also acts as the EDD’s primary intermediary with state and federal chosen officials and offers details, job 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 comprised of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch provides outreach, marketing, interactions, job training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD site and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

One of the largest tax collection firms in the country, the Tax Branch deals with 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 collects almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and supplies one-on-one services to companies to help them meet their tax responsibilities.

Learn more details about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers benefits to individuals who have lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, are able to work, and want to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays nearly $6 billion UI benefits and receives and processes more than 2 million 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) runs one of the largest public employment services operations on the planet using services at numerous service places statewide and connecting one million job candidates with employers each year.

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

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

The WSB also administers several statewide workforce preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing adults and youth for the labor force and building the state’s economy. California distributes more than $394 million yearly in federal funds to supply training services for adults, dislocated employees, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly understood as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a partnership of local, state, personal, and public entities that offer extensive and innovative work services and resources to fulfill the requirements of the California labor force.