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

Sep 9, 2025 - Unit 10 Net Reduced Costs in 2025-26 and 2026-27. The administration estimates that the proposed agreement with Unit 10 would reduce state department costs by $10.1  million ($2.8  million General Fund) in 2025-26 and $13.5  million ($3.8  million General Fund in 2026-27), as shown in Figure  2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - The proposed agreement specifies that, while PLP 2025 is in effect (2025-26 and 2026-27), the state will not implement a furlough program or establish additional PLP days. LAO Comments Administration ’s Estimated Fiscal Effect Reduced State Costs Through 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - The agreement would make Unit 16 members subject to PLP 2025 in 2025-26 and 2026-27. Specifically, effective the first day following ratification, the agreement would make Unit 16 subject to PLP 2025 for 16 months.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Administration ’s Estimated Fiscal Effect Reduced State Costs in 2025-26 and 2026-27. On net, the administration estimates that the agreement would reduce state costs in 2025-26 and 2026-27 by less than $1  million (Figure  2).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - As the figure shows, PLP 2025 and the suspension of OPEB prefunding would result in the state ’s Unit 12 compensation costs to be lower than present levels through 2026-27. These savings would help address the immediate budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - This means that the agreement would be in effect for three fiscal years: 2025-26, 2026-27, and 2027-28. General Salary Increases (GSIs). The agreement would provide a 3  percent GSI on July 1, 2025 and another 3  percent GSI on July 1, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - For 2025-26 and 2026-27, the administration uses a combination of approved MOUs and averaging or prior increases to reach the assumed GSI. If these pay increases were extended to excluded employees affiliated with Unit 5, the pay increases would increa se annual state costs by around $300  million by 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The May Revision assumes that these savings are achieved in two fiscal years: 2025-26 and 2026-27. Control Section 3.90: Reduce Employee Compensation Across All Bargaining Units by Unspecified Amount Through Bargaining or Imposed Administrative Action.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Mar 23, 2020 - The eligibility expansion is retroactive to January 27, 2020, meaning self-employed workers can request benefits for weeks of unemployment bac k to January 27, 2020. The expansion expires September 6, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4208

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 2 (Attorneys and Hearing Officers)—Revised [Publication Details]

Jan 23, 2006 - The MOU would require 2006-07 expenditures of about $436 million (an additional increase of $27 million, or 6.7 percent). The side letter reduces the amount of savings the MOU otherwise would have produced for the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1354