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 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The proposed agreement would change how some pay differentials are treated such that they no longer are considered pensionable compensation —meaning that the payment does not affect the employee ’s pension benefits and do not require a contribution towards the pension benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The agreement also specifies how much of the time may be worked remotely at a location other than the employee ’s worksite. In the case of DSH, the full two hours may be taken remotely if approved by the supervisor.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - As part of this restructuring, adult schools and community colleges formed AEBG consortia and developed regional plans for how they would coordinate their adult programs. These plans are intended to specify how training programs, such as the CNA program, are to be delivered within a region.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

Recent Changes to State and County IHSS Wage and Benefit Costs

Dec 14, 2018 - Under the local wage supplement model, the cost of the first wage supplement is added to a county ’s IHSS MOE obligation, which is then adjusted annually by the MOE growth factor. However, the costs for subsequent local wage supplements are not added to a county ’s MOE obligation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3913

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Recent Policy Change Increases District Rates

Feb 2, 2016 - Because the funding plan ’s key calculation makes the district share relatively insensitive to changes in assets, the bulk of added unfunded liabilities under this scenario would instead be assigned to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3338

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - This linking of costs to benefits is similar in concept to other forms of insurance that charge higher premiums to individuals and organizations with a higher likelihood (risk) of using the insurance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503/1

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Further, we recommend that the Legislature ask questions to better understand the administration ’s proposal and to determine how —or whether —reductions in employee compensation meet legislative priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Revisit How Pre ‑Existing Conditions Are Stacked Under Todd Decision. The final option to consider is reversing or narrowing the Todd case ruling that allows multiple pre ‑existing conditions to be stacked, thereby making it easier to obtain 100  percent permanent disability benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

The 2016-17 Budget: Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)

Mar 1, 2016 - In order to process cases within the desired amount of time, how many people would PERB need to employ? Would the existing or proposed mix of employee classifications need to be altered in order to achieve this goal?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/report/3377