Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - Employees Could Combine Federal Paid Sick Leave and Paid Family Medical Leave. With the state ’s schools closed, the most common use of paid leave under H.R.  6201 at this time will be to look after a child whose school or childcare is closed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

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

Sep 9, 2025 - For most of the more than six decades that the state has offered its employees retiree health benefits, the state did not prefund the benefit but instead paid the cost on a pay-as-you-go basis after employees retired.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Under the current MOU, cadets at the academy who accept work at 1 of 13 specified facilities are eligible to receive a $5,000 location incentive bonus paid in two payments: the first $2,500 paid upon graduation from the academy and the second $2,500 paid 30 calendar days after reporting to the eligible institution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - Adding this payment to previous interest payments, the state has spent a total of almost $1.4  billion in General Fund resources servicing the federal loan since the beginning of the recession. The state is estimated to make additional interest payments of $52  million in 2017 and $17  million in 2018 before the loan is projected to be fully repaid in 2018, as shown in Figure  2 below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In 2022-23, the state paid $25.5 billion (all funds) towards employee salaries. Salary-Driven Benefits. A salary-driven benefit is a benefit whose value is, at least in part, dependent on an employee ’s salary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The estimated salary and salary-driven costs for these employees in 2024-25 totaled $1.1  billion with about two-thirds of these costs being paid from the General Fund. Firefighters Compensated Differently Than Most Employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

COVID-19: Unemployment Insurance for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 23, 2020 - In December, 2020, H.R. 133 re-instituted the weekly $300 added benefit for January 1, 2021 to March  14, 2021. On March  11, 2021, H.R. 1319 extended the weekly $300 added benefit through September 6, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4208