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

Mar 3, 2017 - The DLSE should also describe how it uses information about complaints and the outcomes of investigations to identify trends in compliance by industries, types of violations, size and ownership of business establishments, and other factors that would allow DLSE to dynamically adjust its enforcement approach going forward to maximize improved compliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3602

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget provides $ 31  m illion from the General Fund in 2019 ‑ 20 —to be expended over a few years —to backfill wildfire ‑related property tax loses for cities, counties, and special districts associated with certain major wildfires that have occurred since 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 26, 2019 - The five jurisdictions are Los Angeles County and the Cities of Los Angles, Oakland, San Diego, and San Francisco. The statutory comparison predates the state employee collective bargaining process established by the Dills Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4089

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - According to UC, the proposal would fund three categories of grants: (1) “translational science research grants that will accelerate climate resilience through transfer of ideas and technologies to practice, ” (2) “emergency seed grants to invest in climate disaster preparedness and mitigation, ” and (3) “seed and matching grants to support other climate ‑focused funding
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety)

Aug 8, 2019 - The second competing priority is to limit the amount of regional difference within a classification in order to prevent state employees from consistently transferring to higher paid regions of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4085

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18 (Psychiatric Technicians)

Jan 9, 2020 - The dramatic increase in mandatory overtime at state prisons —in particular the California Health Care Facility —likely is at least partially attributable to the “lift and shift, ” where inmate inpatient psychiatric services were transferred from DSH to CDCR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4134

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6

Jun 14, 2019 - The agreement would establish a working group to develop strategies to enhance recruitment, transfer, and retention of female staff at women ’s prisons. As mentioned earlier, the agreement does not require any working group members to be women.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4078

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s CalPERS Borrowing Proposal

May 16, 2017 - The PMIA holds funds on behalf of the state, as well as cities, counties, and other local entities in the separate Local Agency Investment Fund (LAIF). As of the quarter that ended in March  2017, the balance of the PMIA was roughly $70  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3673

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - We recommend that the Legislature require DLSE to report by March  2019 on (1) changes in the amount of contractor registration fees collected; (2) the estimated effect of any efforts to increase compliance with the contractor registration fee, including outreach to awarding bodies and other steps to increase awarding body accountability for ensuring contractor registration; (3) what adjustments
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

The 2018-19 Budget: Statewide Prison to Employment Initiative

Mar 12, 2018 - The state ’s ex-offender population is concentrated in major cities: three-quarters of supervised ex-offenders reside in ten large counties. Rural areas would likely receive few resources under the proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3781