The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Labor and Employment Issues

Oct 5, 2020 - Under state law, PAGA allows employees to sue their employers to collect a share of penalties associated with labor l aw violations. Penalties and settlement awards from PAGA lawsuits are distributed 75  percent to the LWDF and 25  percent to the plaintiffs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4274

The 2021-22 Budget: Interest Payment on Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 10, 2021 - The federal UI tax is typically used to pay for state UI program administration costs and is set at a rate of 0. 6  p ercent. Both state and federal UI payroll taxes are applied to each employee ’s first $7, 000 i n annual wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4360

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Funding Plan May Not Meet Principle of “Shared Responsibility”

Feb 2, 2016 - In other words, even if investments fall short of the CalSTRS ’ target in the near term, a large investment gain a few years from now could eliminate the state ’s share of the unfunded liability and reduce the state ’s funding plan supplemental payment to $0.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3337

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - For K ‑ 12 e ducation, the budget includes $1. 2  b illion for the Local Control Funding Formula, which reflects funding for the COLA offset by a 0. 3  p ercent attendance decline. For community colleges, the Governor ’s largest ongoing proposal is $ 199  m illion to cover the COLA and 0. 5  p ercent enrollment growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Under the pay differential, employees who telework more than 50 percent of their time receive $50 per month and employees who telework more than 0 percent but less than 50 percent of their time received $25 per month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

Jan 10, 2017 - Less than $50,000 costs appear as “0. ” Likely Indirect Costs to Prevent Future Compaction. When rank-and-file pay increases faster than managerial pay, “salary compaction ” can result. Salary compaction can be a problem when the differential between management and rank-and-file is too small to create an incentive for employees to accept the additional responsibilities of being a manager.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3520

Recent Changes to State and County IHSS Wage and Benefit Costs

Dec 14, 2018 - For example, if a county adopted a $1.00 wage supplement, its IHSS provider wages will be $1.0 0 above the state minimum wage in any given year. Under the local wage supplement model, the cost of the first wage supplement is added to a county ’s IHSS MOE obligation, which is then adjusted annually by the MOE growth factor.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3913

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Under federal l aw, state and local government employers may continue to exclude some employees from Social Security coverage, but only if those employees are enrolled in a retirement plan that meets federal regulations requiring at least a specified level of benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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