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

Sep 9, 2025 - We discuss these challenges in our 2024 analysis of the most recently ratified Unit 10 MOU. Pay Increases Established by 2024 MOU Not Funded in 2025-26 Budget. The Unit 10 MOU that the Legislature ratified in 2024 included pay increases in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientists)

Aug 28, 2018 - Pay Increase for All Unit 10 Members in 2019-20 and 2020-21. The agreement would provide all Unit 10 members a 5  percent General Salary Increase (GSI) effective July 1, 2019 and an additional 5  percent GSI effective July 1, 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3881

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget approved the first step of this plan by providing an across ‑the ‑board 10  p ercent grant increase effective April 1, 2019. The Governor ’s budget proposes to further increase CalWORKs grants by 13. 1  p ercent, which would raise grant levels to 50  p ercent of FPL for a family of three.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 and Unit 10 rank-and-file workers and (2)  between unit 10 rank-and-file workers and their supervisors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We raised concerns in 2019 that CalHR withheld (and continues to withhold) a compensation study it completed in 2018 (see our June 2019 analysis ) and proceeded to not produce compensation studies in 2019, 2020, or 2021 despite new agreements being submitted to the Legislature in those years (see our June 2021 analysis ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The Unit 10 agreement is a side letter related to the administration ’s telework policy and does not include provisions to reduce employee compensation. As a proposed MOU, the Unit 16 agreement is subject to our review under Section 19829.5.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - LAO Comments Undoing the 2009 ‑10 Payroll Deferral Created a Reserve-Like Benefit to the State. As we discussed in 2019 , when the state undid the 2009‑10 payroll deferral, it created a reserve-like benefit to the state in the sense that the payroll deferral could be redone at some future date to help address a future budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

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

Jul 14, 2025 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) July 14, 2025 MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) On July 10, 2025, our office received from the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) a proposed successor memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and Bargaining Unit 16.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Specifically, Section 19829.5 of the Government Code specifies that CalHR “shall provide a memorandum of understanding pursuant to Section 3517.5 to the Legislative Analyst who shall have 10 calendar days from the date the tentative agreement is received to issue a fiscal analysis to the Legislature. […] The memorandum of understanding shall not be subject to legislative
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Mar 23, 2020 - In 2019, the state collected $5.9  billion in UI taxes from employers and issued about $5.5  billion in total UI benefits. On average, in 2019, unemployed workers received about $330 per week for 17 weeks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4208