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 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Specifically, the hourly differentials would increase (1)  from 40 cents to $1.50 per hour for employees who work four or more hours of their regularly scheduled work between 6:00 pm and 12:00 am (midnight) and (2)  from 50 cents to $1.50 per hour for employees who work four or more hours of their regularly scheduled work between 12:00 am (midnight) and 6:00 am.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

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

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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Sep 4, 2015 - Beginning in 2016-17, employees would receive a $1.00 increase in their hourly wages during time worked on shifts between 6:00 pm and 6:00 am. The administration estimates that this would increase the state ’s annual costs by more than $200,000 (mostly from special funds) each year beginning in 2016-17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3296

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - If the fund averaged an annual return of 5  percent over the next 20 years, the $206.8  million would more than double to nearly $550  million. Suspending the state ’s contribution to prefund OPEB reduces costs today but contributes to a significant and growing unfunded liability and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by 2048.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

May 30, 2018 - Unit 6 members receive additional pay for hours they work on night shifts (defined as working more than four hours between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00  a.m.) and weekend shifts (defined as working more than four hours between midnight Friday and midnight Sunday).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3847

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

Jun 27, 2025 - While CalHR foun d that the state ’s compensation for Unit 12 members leads the market statewide across all types of employers, it found that the state ’s compensation package is significantly weaker when compared with region-specific local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Although ETP grants may be one tool to upskill workers, the $90  million proposal in the package would almost double grant funding made by ETP in recent years (the panel distributed a total of $97  million in grants in 2020 ‑21).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

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