Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As one point of reference, this is roughly equivalent in size to the state ’s outstanding federal Unemployment Insurance loan taken out during the pandemic that employers are set to repay over the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

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

Jul 14, 2025 - In the case of DSH, the full two hours may be taken remotely if approved by the supervisor. In the case of CCHCS, up to two hours of the time may be worked remotely if approved by the supervisor. Medical Education Leave.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s CalPERS Borrowing Proposal

May 16, 2017 - For much of the late 1990s and 2000s, the yield averaged around 6  percent, although it fell after the dot-com bust and ensuing recession in the early 2000s. After the rate fell in 2008, it has remained near zero as inflation and U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3673

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The Legislature had taken no action on the Governor ’s implementation plan before the Governor withdrew the implementation plan. Proposed Agreement Term. The proposed MOU would be in effect from July 1, 2024 through July 1, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The proposed agreement specifies that the up to five days of bereavement leave need not be taken consecutively but must be completed within three months of the date of death. Parental Leave. The current MOU allows for an unpaid leave of absence for female permanent employees for purposes of pregnancy, childbirth, recovery therefrom, or care for the newborn child for a period not to exceed one year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

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

Feb 15, 2022 - In this brief, we outline the challenges EDD faced paying legitimate UI claims and preventing fraud during the pandemic, review steps EDD has taken to improve since then, and assess whether additional anti ‑fraud efforts are warranted at this time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Over the past few years, these challenges to the funding plan have become more apparent, and the state has taken one ‑time actions to help keep the funding plan on track. We recommend the Legislature continue to take action in 2021 ‑22 to help ensure the plan ’s success.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - This means that it will eventually be necessary to take stock of the number of contractors expected to register each year after any steps taken to increase compliance with the registration requirem ent, and evaluate what adjustments, if any, need to be made to the level of the registration fee to support public works enforcement on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Labor and Employment Issues

Oct 5, 2020 - In recent years, however, the average claim has taken more than 300 days to adjudicate. According to the administration, this delay is due to new laws that expanded the Labor Commissioner ’s authority to collect wages, which makes some cases more complex and therefore time consuming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4274

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

Mar 23, 2020 - Updated March  25, 2020 to reflect recent state actions taken to accelerate payment of unemployment insurance claims. On March  18, 2020 President Trump signed H.R. 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the first federal relief act aimed at mitigating the economic and public health consequences of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4208