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 investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state's biggest taxation agency, the EDD also handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps employment records for more than 17 million California workers.

Among the largest state departments, the EDD has workers located at numerous service areas throughout California who offer lots of essential services to millions each year, including:

- Assisting employers with their labor requirements.
- Helping task applicants get work.
- Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
- Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-sufficient.
- Helping unemployed 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 supplies administrative assistance to the service operations planning and support services, personnel services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department's annual spending plan.

Directorate Office

The Director's Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to make sure that programs and services follow the Department's objective and goals. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and resolves discrimination grievances submitted versus the Department by workers, employers, and applicants for employment and training, and offers specialist services on all aspects of equivalent job opportunity.
Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions 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 administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California employees who are not able to work due to disease, 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 likewise administers the Paid Family Leave program and employment 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 accountable for planning policy advancement, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch supplies data processing technical support and services for one of the biggest infotech environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch supplies essential audit, examination, study, assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering companies. These services assistance programs run efficiently and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and protect billions of dollars in financial assets that go through the EDD every year. Also works as the EDD's primary intermediary with state and federal chosen officials and offers details, employment analyses, and policy guidance on legal matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, employment 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 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

Among the largest taxation companies 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 nearly $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 preserves records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch offers a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and supplies individually services to employers to assist them meet their tax responsibilities.

Find out more information about EDD's Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years back, 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, are able to work, and are willing to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $6 billion UI advantages and gets and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is funded by mandated company contributions. Additional services offered under the UI program consist of Work Sharing, employment Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Workforce Services Branch

The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs one of the biggest public employment services operations in the world offering services at numerous service areas statewide and linking one million task seekers with companies each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job applicant services include job referral, task search workshops, placement services, employment and special support to individuals who are experiencing trouble in finding work.

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

The WSB likewise administers numerous statewide labor force preparation programs and efforts that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the manpower and building the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million every year in federal funds to provide 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 regional, state, private, and public entities that offer extensive and ingenious work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California workforce.