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Employment Development Department. In California, the Employment Development Department (EDD) is a department of the state government that administers Unemployment Insurance (UI), Disability Insurance (DI), and Paid Family Leave (PFL) programs. The department also provides employment service programs and collects the state's labor market ...
The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) is a cabinet-level agency of the government of California.The agency coordinates workforce programs by overseeing seven major departments dealing with benefit administration, enforcement of California labor laws, appellate functions related to employee benefits, workforce development, tax collection, economic development activities.
The costs of the program are covered by contributions to the State Fund in the form of SDI tax paid by employees, optionally by employers. Employee contributions to the state fund are deductible as state taxes. [2] The table below summarizes the contribution rates, taxable wage limits and maximum withholdings per employee since 1996:
In California, for instance, the state unemployment rate hit 5.3% in February, up 0.8% from a year ago and the highest in the nation. New Jersey's unemployment rate hit 4.8% in February, also up 0.8%.
California’s unemployment remains the highest state rate in the nation. New data from the state’s Employment Development Department put the April rate at 5.3% for the third consecutive month.
The statewide unemployment rate went up a notch to 5.3% in August (from 5.2% in July), tied with Illinois for the second highest behind Nevada’s 5.5% rate, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
In a surprisingly strong economic report, California employers stepped up hiring in May and the state unemployment rate fell for the first time since 2022.