MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The proposed agreement would raise the vacation and annual le ave caps to 924 hours of unused vacation and annual leave. The proposed agreement also specifies that these leave balances would be “extended ” in the event that the department cannot reduce balances for operational reasons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The costs discussed above are only those associated with rank-and-file employees. Many of the compensation increases likely would be extended to managers and supervisors to avoid “salary compaction ” (when rank-and-file pay increases faster than managerial pay).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

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

Sep 9, 2025 - The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) and Unit 10 rank-and-file workers and (2)  between unit 10 rank-and-file workers and their supervisors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The rank-and-file and excluded employees associated with these 19 bargaining units represent more than 95  percent of the state workforce. Section 19829.5 of the Government Code establishes our ten-day review of proposed MOUs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - As of March  2025, the rank-and-file, managerial, and supervisorial employees associated with Bargaining Unit 8 include 9,220 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees. Unit 8 rank-and-file, managerial, and supervisorial employees account for less than 4  percent of the total FTE in the state workforce and about 4  percent of the state ’s General Fund payroll expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Collective bargaining between the Governor and the state ’s rank-and-file employees (organized into 21 bargaining units) is governed by the Ralph C. Dills Act (Dills Act). The product of negotiations at the bargaining table is a labor agreement referred to as a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Jun 27, 2025 - As of March  2025, rank-and-file and excluded employees associated with Unit 12 totaled more than 15,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees, accounting for about 6  percent of the state ’s total workforce (about 256,000 FTE).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

Jan 10, 2017 - In all of the cases shown in the figure, the total pay increase provided by the agreements—through SSAs and GSIs—exceed the pay gap between the state and other employers identified by CalHR. It is important to note, however, that this does not necessarily mean that the pay gap would be closed by the end of the agreements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3520

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - Background Legislature ’s Role in Establishing Rank-and-File State Employee Compensation Legislative and Employee Ratification of Labor Agreements Is Final Step in Collective Bargaining Process. Compensation for rank-and-file state employees —constituting about 80  percent of the state workforce —is established through the collective bargaining process under the Ralph C.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections) [Publication Details]

Jun 23, 2025 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections) [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5058