The Employment Development Department (EDD) uses a variety of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), workforce financial 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 keeps employment records for more than 17 million California employees.

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

- Assisting companies with their labor requirements.

• Helping task seekers obtain work.
• Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged receivers in ending up being self-sufficient.
• Helping jobless and disabled 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 consisting of organization operations planning and support services, human resource services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department's yearly spending plan.
  
  Directorate Office
  
  The Director's Office manages the instructions of the Department to ensure that programs and services follow the Department's mission and goals. In addition, the Director's Office includes:
  
  Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination grievances submitted versus the Department by workers, companies, and applicants for employment and training, and supplies consultant services on all elements of equal employment chance. Legal Office: Provides legal guidance and assistance 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 actually administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California workers who are not able 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 also administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed people. Employers also have the alternative of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Infotech Branch
  
  The Infotech Branch is accountable for planning policy advancement, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch supplies data processing technical support and services for one of the largest infotech environments in state federal government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch supplies essential audit, examination, survey, evaluation, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services aid programs run efficiently and efficiently, meet federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and secure billions of dollars in monetary assets that pass through the EDD each year. Also works as the EDD's primary liaison with state and federal elected officials and offers details, 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 General Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, job 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 website and social networks pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  One of the biggest taxation agencies in the country, the Tax Branch manages all administrative, education, customer care, and enforcement functions for the audit and collection of UI, DI, Employment Training Tax, and job Personal Income Tax (PIT) withholding. Each year, the EDD gathers almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, job processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, job and preserves records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch offers a range of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to employers to assist them satisfy their tax responsibilities.
  
  Find out more details about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years ago, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers advantages to people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, have the ability to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out almost $6 billion UI benefits and receives and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated company contributions. Additional services provided under the UI program consist of Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.
  
  Workforce Services Branch
  
  The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs among the largest public work services operations on the planet using services at numerous service locations statewide and linking one million task seekers with employers each year.
  
  California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job hunter services include job referral, job search workshops, placement services, and unique help to people who are experiencing trouble in finding work.
  
  Services to companies include matching job openings with qualified prospects and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch likewise offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the biggest swimming pool of task hunters in California.
  
  The WSB also administers a number of statewide labor force preparation programs and efforts that concentrate on preparing adults and youth for the labor force and constructing the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million annually in to supply training services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of local, state, private, and public entities that offer thorough and ingenious work services and resources to meet the requirements of the California labor force.