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 Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

Jan 10, 2017 - The proposed agreements provide some employees pay increases through specified payments intended to compensate employees for specific job-related skills, activities, work conditions, certifications, clothing, or other job-specific criteria.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3520

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Imposing Compensation Reductions on Bargaining Units With Active MOUs Weakens Labor Relations. The Legislature has the authority to not fund provisions of a ratified MOU and to impose reductions on bargaining units with active MOUs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Unit 12 Agreement Sets Precedent for Bargaining Units With Active MOUs. Unit 12 is one of 14 bargaining units with MOUs that are scheduled to expire some time after 2025-26. The proposed agreement with Unit 12 is the first concession agreement submitted to the Legislature for one of these bargaining units with active agreements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

Recent Changes to State and County IHSS Wage and Benefit Costs

Dec 14, 2018 - For example, if a county adopted a $1.00 wage supplement, its IHSS provider wages will be $1.0 0 above the state minimum wage in any given year. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3913

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

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Increases State Contributions to Active Employee Health Premiums. The state contributes a flat dollar amount towards Unit 18 members ’ health benefits. The agreement would adjust the state ’s contribution to be equivalent to the “80/80 ” formula where the state contributes 80  percent of the average premium for employees and 80  percent of the average premium for additional family members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

COVID-19: Unemployment Insurance for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 23, 2020 - In December, 2020, H.R. 133 re-instituted the weekly $300 added benefit for January 1, 2021 to March  14, 2021. On March  11, 2021, H.R. 1319 extended the weekly $300 added benefit through September 6, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4208

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Consulting contract with Executive Information Systems to improve reporting of potentially fraudulent activity and crossmatching that data with Department of State Hospitals patient data or California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation  records.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542