Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - In the event that employees have unused PLP 2025 leave in their leave banks upon separation, the agreement specifies that the employees ’ unused leave would be cashed out upon separation at their final salary level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

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 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Beginning July 1, 2026, the current MOU allows for employee contributions towards their retirement benefits to increase in the event that California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (CalPERS) determines that the normal cost of the benefit increases by more than 1  percent of pay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

Recent Changes to State and County IHSS Wage and Benefit Costs

Dec 14, 2018 - (We note that in the event of a recession, the Governor has some discretion to pause the increases.) Most recently, on January 1, 2018, the state minimum wage increased from $10.50 per hour to $11.00 per hour.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3913

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - Figure  1 shows a timeline of this and other key events related to UI during the pandemic. …At the Same Time That New Federal Benefits Were Launched. In response to the pandemic, the federal government expanded the UI  program to include self ‑employed workers —under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program —and provided an additional $600  per  week on top of all  UI  payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

The 2020-21 Budget: Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Sep 9, 2020 - In the event that an agreement could not be reached at the bargaining table by June 30, 2020, the budget authorizes the administration to impose reductions in state employee compensation. LAO Analysis of Agreements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4267

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - In the event that the proposed agreement is not ratified before July 2, 2025, the provisions of the current MOU generally would remain in effect as is required under the Ralph C. Dills Act . This analysis of the proposed agreement fulfills our statutory requirement under Section 19829.5 of the Government Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - As wildfires and other extreme climate events become more frequent, the state likely will need to fund an expanded workforce and more worker overtime to respond to these emergencies, further increasing state costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587