The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Labor and Employment Issues

Oct 5, 2020 - Under state law, PAGA allows employees to sue their employers to collect a share of penalties associated with labor l aw violations. Penalties and settlement awards from PAGA lawsuits are distributed 75  percent to the LWDF and 25  percent to the plaintiffs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4274

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - Specifically, across the levels I through V of the Attorney and Deputy Attorney General series, 15  percent of the 3,700 positions were vacant as of August 30, 2019. Among these classifications, the entry-level Attorney classification had the highest vacancy rate —19  percent —while the most senior classifications (Attorney V and Deputy Attorney General V) had the lowest vacancy rates (less than 9  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - In February 2006, after finding that the state had failed to provide a constitutional level of medical care to people in prison, a federal court (in the case now referred to as Plata v. Newsom) appointed a Receiver to take control over the direct management of the state ’s prison medical care delivery system from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - In our v iew, the SPWEF, funded by fees paid only by contractors that are subject to prevailing wage requirements, is a preferable long-term funding source. Ideally, the prevailing wage determination function would eventually shift back to the SPWEF as compliance with the contractor registration requirement improves and fee revenues increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Under federal l aw, state and local government employers may continue to exclude some employees from Social Security coverage, but only if those employees are enrolled in a retirement plan that meets federal regulations requiring at least a specified level of benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Aug 28, 2018 - Under this agreement, Caltrans likely would reduce its personnel costs by holding positions v acant and stopping its current recruitment efforts. If Caltrans had to resort to layoffs to reduce costs, civil service rules require that the least senior employees be laid off before more senior employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3880

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

Jun 25, 2021 - According to the May 27, 2021 Joint Case Management Conference Statement from the federal court case, Marciano Plata, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, et al (known as Plata v. Newsom), while 71 percent of the incarcerated population in California state prisons has received at least on dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, only 49 percent of correctional staff have had at least one dose of a vaccine.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

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

May 16, 2017 - For much of the late 1990s and 2000s, the yield averaged around 6  percent, although it fell after the dot-com bust and ensuing recession in the early 2000s. After the rate fell in 2008, it has remained near zero as inflation and U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3673