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 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 - Under the funding plan, the state may not use the assets of the trust fund to pay benefit costs until 2046 or the benefit is fully funded, whichever comes first. As of the last actuarial valuation , the state was on track to fully fund the benefit in different years, varying by bargaining unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - The agreement specifies that employees should be given maximum discretion to use PLP 2025 leave and that all leave should be used prior to separation from state service. 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 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - The agreement specifies that employees would be given “maximum discretion ” to use PLP 2025 leave credits; however, “whenever feasible, PLP 2025 should be used in the pay period it was earned. ” PLP 2025 leave would be requested and used by employees in the same manner as vacation or annual leave.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Unlike the CalHR-developed methodology used for the compensation study of Units 2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18, and 19, the Unit 6 compensation study uses a methodology that was agreed to at the bargaining table through a Joint Labor Management Committee process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The methodology that the administration used to derive this estimate assumes that the costs related to planned overtime also are reduced during PLP 2025. As a result, the above estimates overestimate the savings resulting from PLP 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Furloughs (also known as Personal Leave Programs or PLP) are possibly the tool most often used by the state to reduce state employee salaries to address a budget problem. Since 1992-93, furloughs have been used in nine fiscal years (1992-93, 1993-94, 2003-04, 2008-09 through 2012-13, and 2020-21).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Feb 15, 2022 - (After the publication of this report, the IRS reinstated its use of ID.me, but with added safeguards.) New Anti ‑Fraud Proposals No Longer Needed and Run Counter to Strike Team Recommendations. Moving forward at this time with additional layers of fraud protection is not necessary because (1)  recent fraud was concentrated in temporary federal benefit programs
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - A similar approach is used by federal administrators of the SSDI program, which uses “compassionate allowances ” to expedite benefits for workers with serious illnesses. A similar approach could identify SIBTF claimants with profound disabilities or extreme hardship and move their cases forward  quickly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062