The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - To mitigate premium cost increases, the state could subsidize health insurers ’ costs for high ‑risk (high ‑cost) individuals. Alternatively, the state could take action to increase competition among insurers participating in Covered California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - When CalHR did release a compensation study of Unit 6 compensation in 2023 (referred to as the 2022 compensation study because it relies on data from 2022), we were highly critical of the methodology adopted for the study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - In most cases, common, chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, early diabetes, or age ‑related degenerative changes would not meet this threshold. A higher threshold would have the effect of resetting SIBTF claims to cover serious disabilities that substantially impact employability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

The 2022-23 Budget: State Payments on the Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 15, 2022 - Looking Ahead Updated Forecasts Under Two Economic Scenarios —Low Cost and High Cost. To  illustrate state and employer costs to repay the federal UI loans, this analysis updates our earlier low ‑ and high ‑costs forecast scenarios for the state ’s UI  system based on different underlying economic scenarios.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4543

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, in the coming decades, there is an increasing risk that high ‑tide flooding exacerbated by sea ‑level rise will disrupt port‑based commerce and goods movement along the coast, inhibiting workers’ abilities to perform their jobs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

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

Sep 1, 2023 - This high turnover rate appears driven primarily by high rates of voluntary separations, which were reported to be more than 2.5 times the statewide voluntary separation rate. Possibly in part due to this turnover, the study indicates that more than 22  percent of state maintenance and repair worker positions are vacant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4798

Addressing California's Key Liabilities [Publication Details]

May 7, 2014 - In general, we suggest that the Legislature prioritize actions to pay down those liabilities (1) with relatively high interest rates or (2) that result in benefits for groups or entities other than the state government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3011

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The proposed Unit 10 agreement is highly unusual in that it was submitted to the Legislature at the beginning of the legislative session. More commonly, the administration submits labor agreements to the Legislature within days of the end of the legislative session.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 13 (Stationary Engineers)

Aug 26, 2019 - In fact, the department includes its challenges in finding staff to maintain buildings —particularly in high cost of living regions of the state —as one of the reasons it is proposing to divest the state from a number of office buildings—particularly in high cost of living regions of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4090

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000) [Publication Details]

Jul 6, 2006 - We believe that the Department of Personnel Administration's (DPA) estimate of costs resulting from the MOU in 2006-07 is reasonable, but that the estimate for 2007-08 is likely too high by around $65 million due to a high estimate of inflation and not accounting for health care savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1498