News and Announcements
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) today announced it has awarded $650,000 to the Verdugo Workforce Development Board (VWDB) to help bioscience companies, including biopharma, meet the industry’s urgent need for qualified technicians and provide regional job seekers with new careers.
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The California Employment Development Department (EDD) is joining with communities across the state to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of California’s trailblazing Paid Family Leave (PFL) program—a program that delivered more than $11 billion in aid for nearly 4 million Californians caring for ill family members, bonding with children, and helping during a family member’s military deployment.
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California’s unemployment rate increased in the month of August 2022 to 4.1 percent, despite the state’s employers adding 19,900 nonfarm payroll jobs to the economy, according to data released today by the California Employment Development Department (EDD) from two surveys.
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Furthering the Employment Development Department’s effort to strengthen services for California’s diverse communities, the U.S. Department of Labor awarded a $9.1 million grant to continue boosting multilingual accessibility to unemployment insurance benefit programs.