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

The 2016-17 Budget: Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act Resources

Mar 25, 2016 - Reject Proposed Language Allowing DIR to Create Ad Hoc Temporary Amnesty Programs. We recommend rejecting proposed language to grant DIR the authority to create temporary amnesty programs on an ad hoc basis, in favor of reviewing proposals for such programs on a case-by-case basis through the regular legislative policy process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3403

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Recent Policy Change Increases District Rates

Feb 2, 2016 - A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Recent Policy Change Increases District Rates A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan Recent Policy Change Increases District Rates This post is the seventh in a series looking at the implementation of the CalSTRS funding plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3338

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

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

Feb 15, 2022 - These efforts added to the already high workload  at  EDD. Under Longstanding EDD Practices, Workers Must Pass Multiple Identity Tests. When an unemployed worker submits a claim for UI payments, EDD confirms the worker ’s identifying information with the federal Social Security Administration and the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

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

Jul 14, 2025 - As mentioned above, the Legislature has ratified agreements to achieve budgetary savings in 2025-26 with 19 of the bargaining units—agreements with 18 of these units were ratified through Chapter 25 of 2025 (SB 139, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) and the agreement with Unit 6 (Corrections) was ratified through Chapter 26 of 2025 (SB 140, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

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

Sep 9, 2025 - The Legislature ratified an agreement with Unit 18 through Chapter  25 of 2025 (SB  139, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) that suspends the state and employee contributions to prefunding retiree health benefits in 2025-26 and 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - We consider the agreement to be a successor MOU, meaning it is subject to the Legislative Analyst ’s Office ’s review process established under Section 19829.5 rather than the JLBC review process under Item 9800.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - Adding this payment to previous interest payments, the state has spent a total of almost $1.4  billion in General Fund resources servicing the federal loan since the beginning of the recession. The state is estimated to make additional interest payments of $52  million in 2017 and $17  million in 2018 before the loan is projected to be fully repaid in 2018, as shown in Figure  2 below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503