California Unemployment Insurance Code ARTICLE 1 - Employment Development Department

• Section 301.
  There is in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency the Employment Development Department, which is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction heretofore exercised...
• Section 301.6.
  The Employment Development Department shall have the possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, appropriations, land, and other property real or...
• Section 301.7.
  All officers and employees of the State Department of Benefit Payments who, on the operative date of the statute amending this section at the 1977...
• Section 302.
  The Director of Employment Development shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to the approval of the Senate, and shall serve as director at the...
• Section 303.
  There shall be five deputy directors in the Employment Development Department who shall be appointed by the Governor subject to the approval of the Senate...
• Section 304.
  Whenever a reference to this division is made in this article it shall also include all other divisions of this code.(Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch.
• Section 305.
  Regulations for the administration of the functions of the Employment Development Department under this code shall be adopted, amended, or repealed by the Director of...
• Section 305.5.
  All regulations heretofore adopted by the Director of the Department of Human Resources Development shall remain in effect and shall be fully enforceable unless and...
• Section 305.6.
  All regulations heretofore adopted by the Director of Benefit Payments pursuant to this code and in effect immediately preceding the operative date of the amendment...
• Section 306.
  The Director of Employment Development may adopt, amend, or repeal such regulations as are reasonably necessary to enforce his functions under this code.(Amended by Stats....
• Section 307.
  The department shall provide, upon the request of any person or entity, any or all of the department’s rules, regulations, guidelines, bulletins, manuals, standards of...
• Section 310.
  The Director of Employment Development or the Department of Employment Development may prescribe the extent, if any, to which any rule, regulation or interpretation issued...
• Section 311.
  The Director of Employment Development shall appoint such assistants except personnel of the appeals division as he finds necessary for the administration of this division,...
• Section 315.
  The appeals division within the department includes the appeals board and its clerical staff and assistants and the administrative law judges and their supervisors and...
• Section 316.
  (a) There shall be maintained within an appropriate division of the department, a bureau, section, or unit relating to education and public instruction for the purpose...
• Section 317.
  The Director of Employment Development shall maintain a field investigating staff, whose function shall embrace investigation throughout the state of violations of this code, to...
• Section 318.
  The Director of Employment Development shall comply with all applicable provisions of the Government Code relating to contracts, budgets and other fiscal matters, including Sections...
• Section 320.
  The Director of Employment Development shall make such reports in such form and containing such information as the Secretary of Labor may from time to...
• Section 320.3.
  (a) The director shall periodically review policies and practices used to determine eligibility for and the amount of benefits in the unemployment insurance program to identify...
• Section 320.5.
  The director may by authorized regulations prescribe the information required to be reported to the department by employing units under this division and employers subject...
• Section 321.
  The Director of Employment Development shall make available, upon request, to any agency of the United States government charged with the administration of public works...
• Section 322.
  The department may exchange information with other governmental departments and agencies, both federal and state, which are concerned with the administration of unemployment insurance, or...
• Section 323.
  The Director of Employment Development may apply for an advance to the Unemployment Fund and accept the responsibility for the repayment of such advance in...
• Section 324.
  The expense of the administration of this division shall be paid out of the Unemployment Administration Fund, unless otherwise provided for in this division.(Enacted by...
• Section 325.
  (a) The department may study and make recommendations as to action which might tend to:(1) Promote the prevention of unemployment and the stabilization of employment.(2) Encourage and assist...
• Section 325.5.
  The department, in consultation and coordination with veterans’ organizations and veteran service providers, shall do all of the following:(a) Research the needs of veterans throughout the...
• Section 325.6.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that state supported Veterans Employment Training services meet the same performance standards as those required by the federal...
• Section 326.
  The department shall investigate and report upon the degree of unemployment hazard in various industries and occupations and their cost to the Unemployment Fund. It...
• Section 327.
  The department is authorized to enter into negotiations with the United States Bureau of the Census to expand the current population survey for a sample...
• Section 329.
  (a) The director, or his or her designee, shall serve as Chairperson of the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy provided for in Executive...
• Section 333.
  (a) The department shall place a high priority on the automation of the Benefit Payment Control Program, specifically including, but not limited to, automating the ledger...
• Section 334.
  The director shall pursue the following methods to increase the collection of unemployment insurance benefit overpayments:(a) Developing administrative or automated procedures to insure that field offices...
• Section 335.
  The department, in consultation and coordination with the film and movie industry, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and the California Film Commission...
• Section 336.
  The director shall establish procedures to identify the transfer or acquisition of a business that is undertaken for purposes of obtaining a lower unemployment insurance...

Last modified: October 22, 2018