The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Recommendations [Video]

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The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Background [Video]

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Yet there are several reasons why workers with legitimate claims may not have followed up with EDD. Many of the suspected fraudulent claimants already had run out of benefits, meaning legitimate claimants would have had little reason to log in to confirm their identity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The rank-and-file and excluded employees associated with these 19 bargaining units represent more than 95  percent of the state workforce. Section 19829.5 of the Government Code establishes our ten-day review of proposed MOUs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Sep 1, 2023 - This means that the agreement proposes targeted compensation increases that increase state annual costs by more than $100  million by 2026 ‑27. When budget proposals of far lesser value are submitted to the Legislature by the Governor during the budget process, the administration is expected to explain why a cost increase is necessary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4798

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Moreover, when the administration proposes new policy changes through the collective bargaining process, the administration typically provid es little justification for why the policy is designed a specific way.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Moreover, the administration does not offer an a ssessment as to why the state faces these workforce shortages and what interventions could address them. …And Fails to Align Proposed Solutions With Identified Problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Public Safety)

Sep 7, 2023 - This limits the ability for both the Legislature and the public to understand why some state employee should receive higher pay increases than others. Duration Standing LAO Recommendation: Do Not Approve Agreements Longer Than Two Years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4802

The 2017-18 Budget: Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)

Feb 17, 2017 - At budget hearings on this department, we recommend that the budget committees hear from PERB and affected employer and employee groups to understand (1) why PERB is not processing cases in a timely manner and (2) what actions are necessary for the department to meet legislative policy priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3566