The 2020-21 Budget: Staffing to Address New Independent Contractor Test

Feb 11, 2020 - Analysis Predicting AB  5 Workload Difficult at This Early Stage . . . As we noted earlier, at this time we cannot predict how many contractors will be reclassified and hired as employees due to AB  5.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4151

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 2021-22 May Revision: Golden State Stimulus 2

May 18, 2021 - During the summer of 2020, the state regularly distributed $5  billion in UI benefits per week (for comparison, under normal conditions, the state typically distributes about $100  million per week).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4435

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - In a March 11, 2024 letter in response to a request from the Legislative Committee of the State Association of County Retirement Systems, the actuarial panel provided insights into the cost considerations for DROPs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In 2010-11, the state made changes to pension formulas for future hires and increased contribution rates for existing employees. For example, see the 2010 agreement with Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 (Local 10000), which increased employee contributions from 5 percent of pay to 8 percent of pay and reduced pension benefits for future hires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Sep 9, 2025 - PLP 2025 =Personal Leave Program 2025; Local 1000 = Nine bargaining units represented by Service Employee International Union, Local 1000: Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21. OPEB Prefunding State Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) Prefunding Strategy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

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

Jul 14, 2025 - OPEB = Other Post ‑Employment Benefits and Local 1000 = Nine bargaining units represented by Service Employee International Union, Local 1000: Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21. Telework Stipend.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - If the fund averaged an annual return of 5  percent over the next 20 years, the $206.8  million would more than double to nearly $550  million. Suspending the state ’s contribution to prefund OPEB reduces costs today but contributes to a significant and growing unfunded liability and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by 2048.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - As of August 31, 2023, the vacancy rates of the three occupational groups included in the compensation study were 11  percent in the case of Dentists, 23  percent in the case of Family Medicine Physicians, and 46  percent in the case of Psychiatrists.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The trust fund has three revenue sources: returns on invested assets (accounting for 56  percent of CalPERS pension benefit funding); employer contributions (accounting for 33  percent of CalPERS pension benefit funding), which we discuss in greater detail below; and active employee contributions (accounting for 11  percent of CalPERS pension benefit funding).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920