Employment Development Department

EDD Updates Continue With Modernized Disability Benefits Application

May 30, 2025 2:45 amMay 30, 2025 2:46 am

The Employment Development Department (EDD) released a new online application for disability benefits this week, modernizing the agency following years of complaints over the previous longer, more complicated system. Since the beginning of the decade, the EDD has rapidly modernized...

Boeing To Cut 536 Jobs From California Following Several Years Of Major Incidents, Losses

December 10, 2024 2:45 amDecember 10, 2024 2:46 am

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced major cuts in both Washington state and California on Monday, with California reportedly to lose 536 jobs in total, as the company continues to recover from years of financial and engineering issues, as well as more...

Can California’s Broken Unemployment Insurance System Be Saved?

December 4, 2024 2:55 amDecember 4, 2024 7:26 am

“The State’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) Financing System Is Broken. The state’s UI program is supposed to be self-sufficient—that is, the system should collect enough funds to pay for benefits over time.” That is the opening paragraph of the Legislative Analyst’s...

Gov. Newsom Brags on His ‘Economic Blueprint’ While CA Businesses Get Hit with Higher Payroll Taxes

November 22, 2024 9:04 amNovember 22, 2024 9:26 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom is on a listening tour of the state’s red counties, where he does all of the talking and gaslighting, and the people who voted for Trump have to listen. Newsom said Thursday: More jobs. More businesses....

California’s Employment Development Department

August 13, 2024 2:30 amAugust 13, 2024 2:31 am

California’s Unemployment Insurance Code contains a number of provisions related to the Employment Development Department (EDD), which are contained in Division 3, Part 1, Chapter 2. Section 9500 requires the EDD to administer all job training and placement programs and...

Labor Sec. Julie Su Forgives $32.6 Billion in EDD Debt

August 8, 2024 2:53 pmAugust 8, 2024 9:11 pm

As Acting Secretary of Labor, Julie Su has a very big eraser and she just used it wipe out her own $32.6 billion dollar mistake. While she was California’s Secretary of Labor, Su oversaw the California Employment Development Department –...

Automation of the Employment Development Department

July 20, 2024 2:30 amJuly 20, 2024 2:31 am

California Unemployment Insurance Code Division 1.5 concerns automation of the Employment Development Department (EDD). Chapter 1 deals with Annual Reports. Section 4900 defines the terms “department” and “director.” Section 4901 requires the EDD Director to prepare a biennial report to...