ARTICLE 1. Employment Development Department [301. - 340.]

Heading of Article 1 amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.

§§ 301–340 · 40 sections

§ 301 There is in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency the Employment Development Department, which is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and…
§ 301.6 The Employment Development Department shall have the possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, appropriations, land,…
§ 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 portion of…
§ 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 pleasure…
§ 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 and…
§ 304 Whenever a reference to this division is made in this article it shall also include all other divisions of this code.
§ 305 Regulations for the administration of the functions of the Employment Development Department under this code shall be adopted, amended, or repealed by the…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 306 The Director of Employment Development may adopt, amend, or repeal such regulations as are reasonably necessary to enforce his functions under this code.
§ 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,…
§ 310 The Director of Employment Development or the Department of Employment Development may prescribe the extent, if any, to which any rule, regulation or…
§ 311 The Director of Employment Development shall appoint such assistants except personnel of the appeals division as he finds necessary for the administration of…
§ 315 The appeals division within the department includes the appeals board and its clerical staff and assistants and the administrative law judges and their…
§ 316 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Additional languages” means the top 8 to 15 non-English and nonprimary languages…
§ 317 The Director of Employment Development shall maintain a field investigating staff, whose function shall embrace investigation throughout the state of…
§ 318 The Director of Employment Development shall comply with all applicable provisions of the Government Code relating to contracts, budgets and other fiscal…
§ 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 time…
§ 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…
§ 320.4 (a) For the purposes of this part, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the department shall do all of the following: (1) (A) Report at least once every six…
§ 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…
§ 321 The Director of Employment Development shall make available, upon request, to any agency of the United States government charged with the administration of…
§ 321.5 (a) For purposes of preventing payments on fraudulent claims for unemployment compensation benefits, the Director of Employment Development shall verify, with…
§ 322 The department may exchange information with federal, state, or local governmental departments and agencies that are concerned with the administration of…
§ 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…
§ 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.
§ 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…
§ 325.5 The department, in consultation and coordination with veterans’ organizations and veteran service providers, shall do all of the following: (a) Research the…
§ 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…
§ 326 The department shall investigate and report upon the degree of unemployment hazard in various industries and occupations and their cost to the Unemployment…
§ 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 of up…
§ 329 (a) The director, or the director’s designee, shall serve as Chairperson of the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy provided for in…
§ 331 (a) The director shall post, on the homepage of the department’s internet website, a hyperlink to information about the Federal Unemployment Tax Act tax…
§ 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…
§ 334 The director shall pursue the following methods to increase the collection of unemployment insurance benefit overpayments: (a) Developing administrative or…
§ 335 The department, in consultation and coordination with the film and movie industry, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and the…
§ 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…
§ 339 (a) The department shall develop and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, implement a recession plan to prepare for an increase in unemployment insurance…
§ 339.5 (a) The department shall conduct a feasibility study that examines the idea of extending unemployment insurance benefits to self-employed individuals and…
§ 340 (a) (1) The department shall provide a plan for assessing the effectiveness of its fraud prevention and detection tools by May 1, 2022, to the Senate Committee…