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The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a wide range of services to millions of Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce financial investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor employment Market Information programs. As the state's biggest tax collection agency, the EDD also manages the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains work records for more than 17 million California employees.

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

- Assisting employers with their labor requirements.

• Helping job hunters obtain work.
• Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged receivers in ending up being self-dependent.
• Helping unemployed and disabled employees 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 support to the Department consisting of service operations planning and assistance services, human resource 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 ensure that programs and services are constant with the Department's mission and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:
  
  Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and resolves discrimination complaints submitted against the Department by staff members, employers, and candidates for work and training, and offers specialist services on all 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 guideline.
  
  Disability Insurance Branch
  
  For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California employees who are unable 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 gets 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 individuals. Employers likewise have the alternative of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Information Technology Branch
  
  The Information Technology Branch is accountable for planning policy development, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated solutions within the Department. The Branch supplies information processing technical support and services for among the largest information innovation environments in state federal government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch provides essential audit, investigation, survey, assessment, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services assistance programs operate successfully and efficiently, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in financial assets that go through the EDD yearly. Also serves as the EDD's main intermediary with state and federal elected officials and provides details, analyses, and policy assistance on legislative matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor's Office, and employment other governmental entities.
  
  Public Affairs Branch
  
  The General 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, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social media pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  Among the largest taxation agencies in the nation, the Tax Branch manages all administrative, education, consumer service, and enforcement functions for the audit and collection of UI, DI, Employment Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax (PIT) withholding. Each year, employment the EDD gathers nearly $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 employees. The Branch uses a range of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and offers one-on-one services to employers to assist them satisfy their tax obligations.
  
  Discover more information about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers advantages to individuals who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, are able to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $6 billion UI advantages and receives and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated company contributions. Additional services offered under the UI program include Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.
  
  Workforce Services Branch
  
  The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) operates one of the biggest public employment services operations in the world providing services at hundreds of service locations statewide and connecting one million job hunters with companies each year.
  
  California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job seeker services consist of task recommendation, job search workshops, placement services, and unique support to people who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.
  
  Services to employers include matching task openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch likewise uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the biggest swimming pool of job seekers in California.
  
  The WSB also administers numerous statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing adults and youth for the workforce and building the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million annually in federal funds to supply training services for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously referred to as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of local, state, private, and public entities that supply comprehensive and innovative employment services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California labor force.