Job Seeker Services Include Job Referral

The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a wide variety 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 biggest taxation firm, the EDD also handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains work records for more than 17 million California employees.

One of the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees located at numerous service areas throughout California who provide numerous important services to millions each year, consisting of:

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

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch provides administrative assistance to the Department including organization operations preparing and assistance services, personnel services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department’s yearly budget plan.

Directorate Office

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

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and deals with discrimination grievances submitted against the Department by employees, companies, and candidates for work and employment training, and supplies expert services on all aspects of equivalent job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal guidance and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and guideline.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which offers 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 gets 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 choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Information Technology Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch offers data processing technical support and services for among the largest information technology environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch offers crucial audit, investigation, study, assessment, employment and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services assistance programs run successfully and effectively, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and secure billions of dollars in financial assets that travel through the EDD yearly. Also serves as the EDD’s main intermediary with state and federal elected officials and provides details, 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 General Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and employment 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 handles the EDD site and social media 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 the audit and collection of UI, DI, Employment Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax (PIT) withholding. Each year, the EDD collects practically $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax files and remittances, and keeps records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and offers individually services to companies to help them satisfy their tax responsibilities.

Discover more details about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers advantages to people who have actually lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, have the ability to work, and are willing to accept work. Each year, the 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 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 biggest public employment services operations on the planet providing services at hundreds of service areas statewide and connecting one million task seekers with employers each year.

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

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

The WSB likewise administers several statewide workforce preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing adults and youth for the labor force and employment constructing the state’s economy. California disperses more than $394 million yearly in federal funds to provide training 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 local, state, private, and public entities that offer detailed and innovative work services and resources to fulfill the requirements of the California workforce.