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The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a broad variety of services to millions of 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 company, the EDD also manages the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains work records for more than 17 million California workers.

Among the largest state departments, the EDD has workers located at hundreds of service places throughout California who provide numerous essential services to millions each year, consisting of:

- Assisting employers with their labor needs.

Helping job hunters acquire work.
Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth.
Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-sufficient.
Helping jobless and disabled 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 Job Opportunity Office Legal Office

Administration Branch

The Administration Branch provides administrative assistance to the Department consisting of company operations planning and support services, personnel services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department's yearly budget plan.

Directorate Office

The Director's Office manages the direction of the Department to guarantee that programs and services follow the Department's objective and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination complaints submitted versus the Department by workers, companies, and candidates for employment and training, and provides specialist services on all elements of equal employment chance. Legal Office: Provides legal advice and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and regulation.

Disability Insurance Branch

For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which supplies 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 also administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed people. Employers also have the option of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Information Technology Branch

The Information Technology Branch is responsible for planning policy development, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch offers data processing technical support and services for among the biggest info technology environments in state government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch provides essential audit, examination, study, evaluation, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services aid programs operate efficiently and effectively, meet federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary possessions that pass through the EDD each year. Also functions as the EDD's main with state and federal chosen authorities and provides info, 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 Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social media pages.

Tax Branch

Among the largest tax collection agencies 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, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company payroll tax files and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch provides a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and offers individually services to companies to assist them satisfy their tax obligations.

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 actually lost their jobs through no fault of their own, employment are actively looking for work, are able to work, employment and want to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays almost $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 one of the biggest public employment services operations in the world using services at hundreds of service locations statewide and connecting one million task candidates with companies each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job seeker services include job recommendation, job search workshops, placement services, and unique support to individuals who are experiencing problem in finding work.

Services to employers consist of matching job openings with certified prospects and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch likewise provides CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of job openings and the biggest swimming pool of task hunters in California.

The WSB likewise administers a number of statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing grownups and youth for the workforce and constructing the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million every year in federal funds to offer 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 cooperation of local, state, private, and public entities that supply thorough and ingenious employment services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California workforce.