The 2017-18 Budget: Increased Staffing for Labor Standards Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - Targeting of BOFE Inspections Appears to Have Significantly Improved in Recent Years. Our review of legislatively required reports for 2009 ‑10 through 2013 ‑14 (the most recent year for which a report has been submitted) indicates that the targeting of BOFE inspections significantly improved over this period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3602

The 2020-21 Budget: Staffing to Address New Independent Contractor Test

Feb 11, 2020 - However, without a public proposal that includes this information, it is not possible for the Legislature and the public to assess the administration ’s proposal or to evaluate, in future years, how implementation has progressed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4151

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Treatment of Teacher Contributions Also Increase District Unfunded Liabilities [Publication Details]

Feb 2, 2016 - This post is the fourth in a series looking at the implementation of the CalSTRS funding plan. Our third post explained how theoretical asset gains have increased the school and community college district share of CalSTRS’ unfunded liabilities. In this post, we continue this discussion by describing how CalSTRS’ treatment of teacher contributions has also increased the district share.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3335

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - (In a typical recession the trust fund would receive some revenues, although less than in years of economic growth due to decreased taxable wages. However, the effects of a major recession would stretch across multiple years.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503/3

The 2018-19 Budget: Statewide Prison to Employment Initiative

Mar 12, 2018 - Despite these efforts, many California inmates nevertheless reoffend after their release from prison —46  percent of those released in 2012 ‑13 returned to prison within three years of their release.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3781

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - The Governor proposes a few actions to address the funding shortfall in the SPWEF in 2017 ‑18 and later years. First, the Governor proposes to provide funding to DLSE on a two-year limited-term basis for six positions to conduct outreach with awarding bodies to improve their awareness of their responsibility to ensure that contractors have complied with this requirement, with the intent of increasing compliance and fee revenue over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - Figure 1 Potential Year-End UI Trust Fund Reserve Balances Under Declining or Flat Unemployment a (In Billions) 4.1 a The Employment Development Department projections based on LAO unemployment rate assumptions. b Employers are projected to be paying increased federal unemployment insurance (UI) taxes through 2018, resulting in rapid improvement in the trust fund condition in these years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503/2

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Funding Plan May Not Meet Principle of “Shared Responsibility”

Feb 2, 2016 - Figure 1 Projected State Costs Now Much Lower Than in 2014 a (In Millions) $1,086 a Assumes state payroll growth of 3.75 percent each year. b Assumes CalSTRS investment returns equal 7.5 percent each year beginning in 2015-16.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3337

The 2017-18 Budget: Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)

Feb 17, 2017 - DGS was able to extend the lease at the current facility on a month month-to-month basis for one year. The terms of the lease extension increase PERB ’s monthly rent costs for the facility by about $54 per month to a total monthly rent of $20,064 for the facility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3566

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - The state ’s peak year-end balance of loans was $10.2  billion at the end of 2012. Since that time, total revenues flowing into the UI trust fund have exceeded the cost of benefits each year so that the amount of the remaining federal loans is decreasing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503