The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a 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 largest taxation company, employment the EDD also manages the audit and collection of payroll taxes and preserves work records for more than 17 million California workers.

Among the largest state departments, the EDD has staff members situated at hundreds of service areas throughout California who supply lots of essential services to millions each year, including:

- Assisting companies with their labor requirements.

• Helping task applicants acquire work.
• Administering the federally-funded labor force financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged receivers in ending up being self-dependent.
• Helping out of work and disabled employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
• Supporting state activities and 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 offers administrative support to the Department including service operations preparing and assistance services, personnel services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department's yearly budget.
  
  Directorate Office
  
  The Director's Office manages the instructions of the Department to make sure that programs and services are consistent with the Department's mission and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:
  
  Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination complaints filed versus the Department by employees, employers, and candidates for work and training, and supplies specialist services on all elements of equal work chance. Legal Office: Provides legal advice and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, employment and guideline.
  
  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 disease, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) benefits 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 people. Employers likewise have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Infotech Branch
  
  The Infotech Branch is accountable for planning policy development, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch provides information processing technical support and services for among the largest infotech environments in state government.
  
  Policy, employment Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch supplies crucial audit, examination, study, evaluation, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services help programs operate successfully and effectively, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in financial properties that go through the EDD yearly. Also functions as the EDD's main intermediary with state and federal chosen officials and offers information, 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, employment Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD site and social networks pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  One of the biggest taxation firms in the nation, the Tax Branch deals with 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, the EDD gathers practically $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, and maintains 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 help them satisfy their tax commitments.
  
  Find out more info about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years ago, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides benefits to individuals who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays almost $6 billion UI advantages 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 consist of 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 places statewide and connecting one million job applicants with employers each year.
  
  California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job hunter services include task recommendation, job search workshops, positioning services, and special support to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.
  
  Services to companies include matching job openings with qualified prospects and specialized recruitment campaigns. The Workforce Services Branch also provides CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the biggest pool of task applicants in .
  
  The WSB also administers several statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the labor force and constructing the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million yearly in federal funds to provide training services for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, private, and public entities that offer detailed and ingenious employment services and resources to meet the requirements of the California labor force.