MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - While the average state employee (across the entire workforce) is 45 years old, the average member of all three Unit 16 occupations is in their mid-50s. Despite being older than the average state employee, the average Unit 16 member has ten years of service compared with the average state worker having 12 years of service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - In addition, sharing the funding cost with state employees likely strengthens any argument that the benefit is protected under the State Constitution, potentially preventing the Legislature from reducing or modifying the benefit in t he future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Since the 1990s, the costs for this benefit have been among the fastes t growing costs in the state budget. Between 2000-01 and 2024-25, the state ’s inflation-adjusted General Fund pay-as-you-go cost towards these benefits increased by more than 250  percent to $2.8  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - As such, if the state were to incorporate a DROP as part of its compensation package to Uni t 8 members, the state would bear the risks associated with the program (for example, if actual investment returns fell short of the interest rate applied to funds in a DROP account).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Furloughs can make the state a less attractive employer to possible new hires by making the state ’s compensation package less competitive compared with compensation offered by other employers and by demonstrating a lack of predictability in the state ’s terms of employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - The Board held that CCHCS materially changed terms and conditions of employment and determined, among other things, that CCHCS imposed new duties that were not reasonably comprehended within primary care physician’s previous duties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In 2013, under the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act (PEPRA), the state established a standard that state employees would contribute one-half of the normal cost of pension benefits and adopted a new (lower) pension benefit for new state employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Absent a successor MOU, the state ’s contributions towards Unit 18 health premiums would not change when new premiums are established in January 2029. Delays Restoration of Suspended Employer and Employee Contributions to Prefund OPEB.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2021-22 Budget: Creating a New Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages

Feb 10, 2021 - The LWDA was created in 2002 t o ( 1)  i mprove accountability and access to services, ( 2)  e liminate program duplication, and ( 3)  a chieve cost ‑effectiveness. Achieving the objectives identified for the new department appears well within the original and ongoing responsibilities of the LWDA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4361