The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a variety 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 tax collection company, the EDD also handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and keeps employment records for more than 17 million California employees.

Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees located at numerous service places throughout California who offer lots of crucial services to millions each year, consisting of:

- Assisting employers with their labor requirements.

• Helping task applicants get work.
• Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged receivers in ending up being self-dependent.
• Helping out of work and handicapped workers through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
• Supporting state activities and job benefit 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 supplies administrative support to the Department including business operations planning and support services, human resource services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department's yearly budget.
  
  Directorate Office
  
  The Director's Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to guarantee 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 deals with discrimination complaints filed versus the Department by staff members, companies, and candidates for work and training, and supplies specialist services on all elements of equal employment chance. Legal Office: Provides legal recommendations and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and policy.
  
  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 illness, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays out more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) advantages and receives and processes more than 927,000 claims. The DI Branch likewise administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed individuals. Employers also have the option of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Information Technology Branch
  
  The Information Technology Branch is accountable for job planning policy advancement, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch provides information processing technical assistance and services for among the largest infotech environments in state federal government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch offers essential audit, examination, survey, examination, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services aid programs run successfully and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and secure billions of dollars in financial assets that pass through the EDD every year. Also acts as the EDD's primary intermediary with state and federal elected officials and provides information, analyses, and policy guidance on legal matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor's Office, job and other governmental entities.
  
  Public Affairs Branch
  
  The Public Affairs Branch is made up 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 manages the EDD website and social networks pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  One of the biggest taxation companies in the country, the Tax Branch deals with all administrative, education, job customer support, and enforcement functions for the audit and collection of UI, DI, Employment Training Tax, and 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 company payroll tax documents and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to employers to help them fulfill their tax commitments.
  
  Learn more info about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers benefits to individuals who have actually lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for job work, are able to work, and want to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays out almost $6 billion UI advantages and receives and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is moneyed 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) operates among the biggest public employment services operations worldwide using services at numerous service locations statewide and connecting one million task seekers with companies each year.
  
  California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job candidate services consist of task referral, task search workshops, positioning services, and job unique support to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.
  
  Services to employers include matching task openings with qualified prospects and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch likewise offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless job openings and the biggest swimming pool of job applicants in California.
  
  The WSB also administers several statewide workforce preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the labor force and building the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million yearly in federal funds to offer training services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously known as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a partnership of local, state, private, and public entities that supply extensive and innovative work services and resources to meet the requirements of the California workforce.