MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - PLP 2025 =Personal Leave Program 2025; Local 1000 = Nine bargaining units represented by Service Employee International Union, Local 1000: Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21. 66-Hour Duty Week Reduction of Duty Week to 66 Hours Approved in 2024-25 Budget, Full Implementation Not Expected Before 2028-29.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Figure 1 Status of Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings Ratified by Chapter 25 of 2025 (SB 139, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) Unit 1 Administrative, Financial, and Staff Services Unit 2
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - On March  3, 2025, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-22-25 . The executive order requires all agencies and departments under the Governor’s authority that provide telework as an option for employees to implement a telework policy with a default minimum of four in-person days per work week effective July 1, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Since January 1, 2022, Unit 16 employees who have an approved telework agreement on file with their department are eligible to receive $50 per month if they are identified as a remote centered employee or $25 per month if they are identified as an office centered employee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - (The stipend provides remote-centered workers $50 per month and office-centered workers $25 per month.) Unit 18 Term. The proposed agreement would be in effect through July 1, 2028. This means that the agreement would be in effect for three fiscal years: 2025-26, 2026-27, and 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - Enacted 2024-25 Budget Includes Funds to Reduce Duty Week. The 2024-25 Governor ’s budget included $199  million ($197  million General Fund) and 338 positions in 2024-25 to begin implementing a shift to a 66-hour duty week as contemplated in the Unit 8 MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As shown in Figure  6 , the 2024 ‑25 tax is expected to generate $850  million, nearly double the amount necessary to replenish the fund in the prior year. …But Increase Only Reflects Processed Claims, Understating Full Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - Given this unique situation, the state could explore using Proposition  2 debt payment funding to pay for a portion of its required contribution to CalSTRS in 2024 ‑25. Depending on how the Legislature implemented this option, the state could offset around $1  billion General Fund in 2024 ‑25 by using Proposition  2 funds for this purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - (For our analysis of issues related to pension payments under Proposition  2 [2014], see our report The 2024‑25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals .) Specifically, this analysis looks at the Governor’s 2024‑25 budget proposals to (1) use vacancy rates to identify one-time unallocated spending reductions across state departments,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Between 2000-01 and 2024-25, the state ’s inflation-adjusted General Fund pay-as-you-go cost towards these benefits increased by more than 250  percent to $2.8  billion. The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060