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

Sep 9, 2025 - As Figure  1 shows, the exact terms of PLP 2025 varies by bargaining unit. Generally, PLP 2025 offsets employee pay in exchange for hours of leave in each month of PLP 2025. The duration of PLP 2025 generally is 24 months across 2025-26 and 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - PLP 2025. The agreement would make Unit 8 members subject to PLP 2025 in 2025-26 and 2026-27. Specifically, effective the first day of the pay period following ratification by both parties through the June 2027 pay period, Unit 8 members would be subject to PLP 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

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

Jul 14, 2025 - PLP 2025. The agreement would make Unit 16 members subject to PLP 2025 in 2025-26 and 2026-27. Specifically, effective the first day following ratification, the agreement would make Unit 16 subject to PLP 2025 for 16 months.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - PLP 2025. The agreement would establish PLP 2025 for Unit 9 members in 2025-26 and 2026-27. Under the agreement, PLP 2025 would (1)  reduce employee pay by 3  percent (effectively holding employee take-home pay flat after accounting for the GSI) and (2)  provide employees five hours of PLP 2025 leave each month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - The PLP 2025 pay reduction offsets the 2025-26 GSI such that affected employees ’ take-home pay essentially is flat during PLP 2025 relative to current salary levels. In each month during PLP 2025, most Unit 6 members would receive five hours of PLP 2025 leave credits (employees in specified Fire Captain classifications would receive seven hours of PLP 2025 leave credit each month).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 27, 2025 - PLP 2025. The agreement would establish PLP 2025 for full-time and part-time employees represented by Unit 12 in 2025-26 and 2026-27. During PLP 2025, Unit 12 members ’ pay would be reduced by 3  percent in exchange for five hours of PLP 2025 leave credit each month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The provisions of the MOUs with these bargaining units would provide employees in each of the units some form of salary increase in 2025-26. Seven Bargaining Units Have Agreements Expiring in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Proposal Defer June 2025 Payroll to July. The Governor proposes deferring the June 2025 payroll to July. Similar to how the 2009 ‑10 payroll deferral operated, this would result in the state paying 11 months of payroll in 2024 ‑25 and, beginning in 2025 ‑26, state accounting reports in future fiscal years would include June payroll from the preceding fiscal year through May of the current fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888