The state Employment Development Department plans to hire nearly 2,000 temporary full-time and hourly staff members in the coming weeks to hasten the delivery of unemployment benefits to workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The EDD is collaborating with the California Department of Human Resources, the California Highway Patrol and California Correctional Health Care Services to screen, interview and hire about 1,800 state employees.
Those hired will be trained to work in the state’s unemployment call centers, process unemployment insurance claims and analyze documents from applicants and their former employers to determine their applicable benefits.
“This urgent hiring effort will further enhance the department’s ability to process an unprecedented surge of benefit claims, while offering an opportunity for employment to Californians during this difficult time,” EDD Director Sharon Hilliard said.
The EDD currently has about 1,200 regular staff members processing unemployment insurance claims as well as 1,300 state employees who have been redirected to assist the agency in dispersing benefits to the millions across the state who are out of work due to the pandemic.
Since the pandemic began, the state has processed some 5.1 million unemployment claims and dispersed more than $16.1 billion in benefits as of the week of May 10-16.
New hires will have the option to work from home or in office locations throughout the state. Bilingual applicants, particularly those who speak Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Mandarin, are encouraged to apply.
Applications to work with the EDD can be found and submitted at www.calcareers.ca.gov
Just take all the county workers who are staying at home, doing nothing and getting paid and make them do this (without pay, of course, since they are already getting paid). Let’s stop spending ridiculous amounts of money that the state doesn’t have so that people can do nothing.
Great idea!
Getting paid where’d you hear that?
@Ozzie- from people who work for the county…..
Great, let’s get it going, hire away.
What took so long
Instead if getting unemployment they should be required to work in these jobs.
oh,
now there is someone thinking for a change
send it to the gov he can make it his idea like always
but at least there might be some streamlining of the inefficient boggle nest of doongers running the show spending at will because they cant do any simple thinking to produce more with what they got
liberalism makes sense now and so do their supporters
mismanaged non structural under achieving thinkers with blinders on
as most liberal voters say might as well keep it the same because we cant figure out who else to elect
it all makes sense now why this state is in a virtual tornado of hate and separatism and a political agenda pushing it all
I mean if you don’t like dogs your a racist and are against diversity
if you hate cats your a racist and hate women as well
if you like modern your a racist and a 1%er
if you like to do your job and work hard and want to move up and make more money you are a racist and a trump supporter
if you don’t like bums and illegals pilfering the coffers your a racist and a republican
if you hate crime and looting and theft your a racist and a non believer in self rehabilitation with no jail time
well it all makes sense and now we can move on knowing how to deal with liberal thinking and agendas
I hope they will do a better job determining who qualify or not,because I know people that have 2 jobs and still getting EDD benefit.
Whereas I applied over 3 weeks ago and still haven’t heard a thing
People like that will get caught and have to pay back everything that was unfairly paid to them. Plus they could be banned from receiving benefits for 6 months if the need ever arrives again to apply. It happened to me once . I had restarted my job and did not turn off my benefits right away. I hate friends that this has happened to also..While the State might be lackadaisical in some things they are not in this matter.
So, the state will hire an additional 2,000 workers to help streamline the process of people receiving their unemployment benefits (which is owed to them), but they will hire 20,000 COVID-19 contact tracers to trace a disease that is already proven to be almost a farce.
It’s good to know where the state’s priorities lie.
Destroy the economy and people’s lives over bad data models.
Then take no responsibility for the bad models and shrug it off with a disingenuous “oh, well” (That’s you, Dr. Fauci.)
Add an army of power hungry Karens telling us when we can go out and what we can do.
Yeah, this country is due for a purge at all levels of government.
I really hope they will get caught up, it is a lot of money wasted and they are doing budget cuts to the education. Some of us coming the next school year we will lose our jobs. I think this is not fair.
What is so hilarious about this insane rioting and looting is that all these deadbeats are getting huge payouts from unemployment + federal government, something like 4K a month, to just sit at home, safe and sound. They could learn a language, learn to code, spend time with their families; they are afterall making FAR more money than many low wage essential workers, for doing nothing!!
Yet they still come out and loot and riot and attempt to murder police, national guard, and anyone right of Bernie Sanders.
As an essential worker who must risk his life to make peanuts, it makes me want to wretch.
Obviously this all is a huge plan-demic! Many people don’t know this but Soros, Gates and many other Liberal, Socialist and Communist pigs have their A.I. in place already controlling the population with these staged “false flag” events designed to topple our government and implement the NWO! This is the result of their A.I. running millions or billions of simulations and advising these artificial humanoids like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk to “depopulate” the earth by 2030! (Do your research)