The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - For rank-and-file employees, labor agreements establish the effective date and types of pay increases received by employees over the term of the agreement. The administration most often extends pay increases agreed to at the bargaining table to excluded emplo yees affiliated with the bargaining unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Establishing a DROP through the collective bargaining process limits the Legislature ’s ability to deliberate the specific policy and its merits, as well as its implications on the state ’s finances and equity considerations across bargaining units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - While the agreement would allow for the contribution rate to be adjusted, those adjustments would be limited to 0.5  percent per year. This constraint makes it even less likely full funding can be achieved by 2046.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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 Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - Types of Agreements Agreements Submitted to Legislature Through Two Different Processes. There are two processes through which a labor agreement can be submitted to the Legislature. The first applies to successor MOUs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

Labor Agreements: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, AND 21

Jun 25, 2020 - We agree with the Legislature ’s stated goal that —to the extent possible —savings be achieved at the bargaining table. Achieving savings at the bargaining table —rather than imposing compensation cuts —results in less discord between the state employer and its workforce and is less detrimental to morale.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4257

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Limitation of Electronic Monitoring. The proposed agreement would establish a number of limitations on the state ’s ability to electronically monitor Unit 10 members. The state would be prohibited from using an employee ’s log on/off time, electronic access card entry/exit times, or other “online status ” in any electronic application as the sole source of attendance reporting or as the sole reason of discipline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - At the bargaining table, the Governor is represented by the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR). Employees are organized into 21 bargaining units that are represented by unions at the bargaining table.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The agreement specifies that accrued, unused PLP 2025 hours would not expire and must be used prior to any other type of leave, except sick leave. The agreement specifies that accrued PLP 2025 would need to be exhausted prior to voluntary separation from state service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - At the bargaining table, each page of a tentative agreement is signed by both parties and dated. From our experience reviewing MOUs, we have learned that an agreement often takes a few months —not years —to be finalized.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665