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

Sep 9, 2025 - Under PLP 2025, Unit 10 members would continue to work the same number of hours, but their pay would be reduced by 3.5  percent. In exchange for the offset in pay, employees would receive six hours of leave each month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

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 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - However, the Legislature now knows that a six-hour duty week reduction requires a substantial, new, and ongoing General Fund commitment of nearly $1  billion annually (by 2028-29). The Legislature also knows that other relevant changes, such as the transition of seasonal firefighter positions to permanent ones, will increase General Fund costs in future fiscal years with projected multibillion-dollar deficits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Proposed Agreement Will Push Back Date When Benefit Is Fully Funded for Unit 16. The Unit 16 retiree health benefit is on track to being fully funded by 2042. This is six years earlier than other bargaining units and four years earlier than the 2046 date when the Legislature will be able to use the assets in the trust to pay for benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

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/Report/5063

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - This means that, over the course of fiscal year 2022-23, Unit 8 members would receive a 3.5  percent salary increase (2.5  percent for the first six months and a compounded 4.6  percent for the second six months of the year).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - Originally, the requirement was for the administration to submit the compensation study for all state employees with the Governor ’s budget on January 10 each year. However, Chapter  465 of 2003 (SB  624, Committee on Public Employment and Retirement) amended the law so that the compensation study for a particular bargaining unit is due six months before the unit ’s MOU expires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Fewer Years of Service Among Staff. The average Unit  6 member in 2022 had 11.4 years of service. This is about one year fewer years of service than the average Unit  6 member had in 2012. However, the average Unit  6 member has about one more year of service
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - CalHR did not submit a compensation study six months before the 2019 MOU expired on July 2, 2020. The two-year agreement ratified by the Legislature in 2020 retained the language from the 2019 MOU. Although all three of these agreements contained provisions that affected the salaries received by Unit 6 members, the administration agreed to these compensation changes without having conducted a compensation study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446