MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The Legislature did not know the full fiscal effect of a 66-hour duty week in August 2022. However, the Legislature now knows that a six-hour duty week reduction requires a substantial, new, and ongoing General Fund commitment of nearly $1  billion annually (by 2028-29).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2020-21 Budget: Staffing to Address New Independent Contractor Test

Feb 11, 2020 - Below, we describe what we know, and do not know, about how many contractors the law applies to and how many of these reclassified workers will be hired as employees: How Many Independent Contractors Does the New ABC Test Apply To?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4151

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

Jul 14, 2025 - While we are not at the bargaining table and do not know what issues were discussed, we feel it was a missed opportunity for the parties to not find a solution that simplified the prefunding arrangement while also helping address the current budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Public Safety)

Sep 7, 2023 - We do not know the cause of this variation; however, the trend could reflect shifts in the workforce over time that affect the average salary rather than a reflection of past pay increases not keeping pace with inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4802

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Jan 23, 2017 - The administration informs us that these allowances are based on the average cost cited by vendors for uniforms and boots; however, the administration does not yet know the actual cost of these items as a vendor has not been selected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3534

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

Jun 27, 2025 - While we are not at the bargaining table and do not know what issues were discussed, we feel it was a missed opportunity for the parties to not find a solution that simplified the prefunding arrangement while also helping address the current budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - Ratifying this MOU would mean the Legislature would approve the change to a 66-hour duty week prior to knowing the details of how that policy would be implemented, its associated cost, and whether it would be effective.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

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 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - While we are not at the bargaining table and do not know what issues were discussed, we feel it was a missed opportunity for the parties to not find a solution that simplified the prefunding arrangement while also helping address the current budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Given the limited amount of time we have to complete our analysis, we do not know why the vacancy rate for CHP officers has grown faster than the statewide vacancy rate. It is possible that the higher vacancy rate is due to some combination of turnover and recruitment challenges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920