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

Jan 14, 2019 - The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget approved the first step of this plan by providing an across ‑the ‑board 10  p ercent grant increase effective April 1, 2019. The Governor ’s budget proposes to further increase CalWORKs grants by 13. 1  p ercent, which would raise grant levels to 50  p ercent of FPL for a family of three.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Under the current MOU, Unit 12 members at the top step of their salary range are scheduled to receive a 4  percent pay increase on July 1, 2025. The proposed agreement would replace the scheduled top step increase with a 3  percent GSI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We note that overtime costs in 2020-21 increased 12  percent compared with 2019-20; however, we cannot assess what share of this increase was due to PLP 2020, operational effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, or other factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Legislative Ratification of Agreements With Units 6, 9, and 12. In June 2025, our office issued analyses of proposed labor agreements with Units 6 (Corrections) , 9 (Professional Engineers) , and 12 (Craft and Maintenance) .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Jun 10, 2016 - Major Provisions of Proposed Agreement If ratified by the Legislature and the IUOE membership, this agreement would be in effect through July 1, 2019. With an official term of four years, this agreement would have the longest duration of any Unit 12 agreement we have reviewed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3482

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Budget-related legislation (Chapter  24, Statutes of 2019 ( SB 83, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review )) also instructs the administration to develop a proposal, by 2021-22, to (1) increase the duration of paid family leave to six months, meaning 12 weeks for each parent or caregiver, and (2) increase the wage replacement rate from 70 percent to 90 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

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

Sep 9, 2025 - The table reflects assumptions assumed by the administration in its estimate of the agreement ’s fiscal effect. b The agreements with Units 12 and 13 provide employees an additional eight hours of PLP 2025 leave effective June 1, 2027 on a one ‑time basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000)

Sep 6, 2019 - (For reference, the current state minimum wage is $12. Under state law, the state minimum wage will increase to $13 per hour on January 1, 2020, to $14 per hour on January 1, 2021, and to $15 per hour on January 1, 2022.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4094

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - However, the administration did not submit a compensation study in 2019. At the time, the administration indicated that CCPOA and CalHR still had not resolved their methodological differences. In 2019, the Legislature ratified another one-year MOU for Unit 6 (henceforth referred to as the 2019 MOU ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - Retroactively to July  1, 2019, each Unit 2 member who is the primary recipient of a CalPERS health plan would receive a monthly payment of $260 for the 12 months of 2019 ‑20. The payment would be subject to Medicare and Social Security payroll deductions, but would not be subject to CalPERS pension contributions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095