MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Therefore, we recommend the Legislature require an estimation of the fiscal effect and time line to implement a 56-hour duty week be provided prior to any discussion during the successor MOU negotiations in 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - In particular, while retirement rates among Unit 12 members is in line with state averages, the involuntary and voluntary separations are above the state average. This suggests that Unit 12 members are more likely to separate from state service before retirement compared with other state workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Full Employer Costs Likely $2   Billion to $3   Billion Annually. Looking broadly at incoming claims each year, employers likely face lifetime SIBTF costs totaling $2  billion to $3  billion for each cohort of claims that injured workers submit each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

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

Jul 14, 2025 - In addition, sharing the funding cost with state employees likely strengthens any argument that the benefit is protected under the State Constitution, potentially preventing the Legislature from reducing or modifying the benefit in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - As such, whatever is ratified under a Unit 6 agreement will create a precedent that likely will be used as a model for successor agreements with the other six bargaining units expected to come to the table this ye ar.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Unit 5 More Likely to Be White and Male … Peace officer jobs —like CHP officers —historically have been filled by men. As Figure  4 shows, CHP officers are less diverse than correctional officers or the statewide civil service workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The most common type of benefits in this category, like those described below, are insurance plans. Health Insurance. CalPERS administers the state ’s health plans and negotiates with providers to establish plan premiums each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - The state and employers likely will incur higher costs to adapt to these climate change impacts. We discuss the significant ways in which climate change affects workers, employers, and industries in further detail below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Like the 2024 MOU, the agreement would last two years and would expire July 1, 2027. We highlight the changes relative to the 2024 MOU below. Increases 2025-26 Special Salary Adjustments for Employees Below Top Step of Salary Ranges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - The general intent of experience rating is to link payment for UI program costs to the likelihood that benefits will be paid, such that employers whose employees are more likely to receive UI benefits —in other words, are more likely to be laid off, as measured by the amount of past benefits received by the employer ’s former employees —would pay a higher proportion of UI program costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503/1