Job Seeker Services Include Job Referral

The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a wide range of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), labor force investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state's biggest tax collection agency, the EDD likewise manages the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps employment records for more than 17 million California workers.

Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at hundreds of service locations throughout California who offer many essential services to millions each year, consisting of:

- Assisting companies with their labor needs.
- Helping job candidates get employment.
- Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for adults, dislocated employees, and youth.
- Assisting disadvantaged recipients in ending up being self-dependent.
- Helping jobless and handicapped employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
- Supporting state activities and advantage programs by gathering 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 support to the Department consisting of organization operations preparing and support services, personnel services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department's annual spending plan.

Directorate Office

The Director's Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to ensure that programs and services are constant with the Department's objective and goals. In addition, the Director's Office includes:

Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and resolves discrimination grievances submitted versus the Department by employees, companies, and applicants for work and training, and offers specialist services on all elements of equal work chance.
Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions and employment support to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and policy.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for California employees who are not able to work due to health problem, injury, or employment pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) advantages 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 employment self-employed people. Employers also have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Infotech Branch is accountable for planning policy advancement, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch supplies information processing technical and services for one of the biggest infotech environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch provides crucial audit, examination, survey, evaluation, employment and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services aid programs operate successfully and efficiently, meet federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in financial assets that go through the EDD each year. Also serves as the EDD's main liaison with state and federal chosen authorities and offers 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 Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch provides outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD website and employment social media pages.

Tax Branch

Among the biggest tax collection 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 gathers practically $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 keeps records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch offers a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and supplies individually services to companies to help them fulfill their tax commitments.

Find out more information about EDD's Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies advantages to individuals who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, are able to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays nearly $6 billion UI benefits and receives and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is funded by mandated employer contributions. Additional services supplied under the UI program include Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Workforce Services Branch

The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs among the largest public work services operations on the planet using services at numerous service locations statewide and connecting one million job candidates with employers each year.

California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job seeker services include task referral, job search workshops, placement services, and special support to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.

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

The WSB likewise administers numerous statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the manpower and developing the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to offer training services for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, private, and public entities that offer thorough and ingenious work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California workforce.