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Job Seeker Services Include Job Referral
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The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a wide array 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 agency, the EDD likewise deals with the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains work records for employment more than 17 million California workers.
Among the largest state departments, the EDD has staff members situated at hundreds of service locations throughout California who offer numerous important services to millions each year, including:
- Assisting employers with their labor needs.
- Helping task applicants obtain employment.
- Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
- Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-sufficient.
- Helping out of work 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 offers administrative support to the Department including service operations preparing and support services, human resource services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department's yearly budget.
Directorate Office
The Director's Office orchestrates the direction of the Department to ensure that programs and services follow the Department's mission and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:
Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination grievances submitted versus the Department by employees, companies, and applicants for employment and training, and supplies consultant services on all aspects of equal job opportunity. Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and policy.
Disability Insurance Branch
For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California workers who are unable to work due to health problem, 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 people. Employers likewise have the choice of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
Infotech Branch
The Infotech Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch provides information processing technical support and services for employment one of the biggest details innovation environments in state government.
Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
This branch provides essential audit, examination, survey, examination, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services help programs operate efficiently and efficiently, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary possessions that pass through the EDD annually. Also serves as the EDD's main liaison with state and federal elected authorities and offers details, analyses, and policy assistance on legal matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor's Office, 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 supplies 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 tax collection companies in the country, the Tax Branch handles 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 nearly $54 billion in payroll taxes, employment including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax files and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a range of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to companies to help them meet their tax obligations.
Learn more info about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
Unemployment Insurance Branch
Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides advantages to individuals who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, and want to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays almost $6 billion UI benefits and gets and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated company contributions. Additional services supplied under the UI program include Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and employment Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Workforce Services Branch
The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs among the biggest public employment services operations worldwide using services at hundreds of service areas statewide and linking one million job seekers with employers each year.
California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job candidate services include task referral, task search workshops, positioning services, and unique assistance to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.
Services to companies include matching task openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch likewise offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless 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 manpower and constructing the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million annually in federal funds to supply training services for adults, dislocated workers, and employment youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly called One-Stop Career . The AJCC system is a collaboration of local, state, private, and public entities that offer thorough and ingenious work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California labor force.