The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The proposed control section would authorize the administration to impose reductions of any amount through any policy if reductions are not established under a collective bargaining agreement by Jul y 1, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - If the Legislature shifts prevailing wage de termination to the LECF, we recommend that the Legislature require that DLSE report at a later date on the feasibility of returning the prevailing wage determination function to the SPWEF, as described in greater detail below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - This is not consistent with our long-standing recommendation that the Legislature only approve MOUs with terms of one or two y ears. The basis of this recommendation is to preserve legislative flexibility to respond to changing economic conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - However, as discussed earlier, how several augmentations within the proposed package would fit within the structure of existing workforce de velopment programs is unclear. Accordingly, new workforce development programs may need to be created to administer some of the funding in this proposed package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - For example, several proposals would establish new programs that might require additional feedback from stakeholders to determine key de tails, such as program guidelines and allocation criteria. Before the Legislature takes any action on these proposals, it will be important to require the administration to provide additional information to ensure the requested funding will be implemented according to its priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6

Jun 14, 2019 - The normal cost typically does not change from one year to another unless benefits change or the CalPERS board adopts new assumptions that materially affect the amount of money that must be set asi de to fund benefits earned today.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4078

The 2020-21 Budget: Staffing to Address New Independent Contractor Test

Feb 11, 2020 - Workers excluded from the new test include, among others, physicians, construction contractors, real estate agents, attorneys, accountants, private detectives, and travel agents. How Many Independent Contractors Does AB  5 Affect?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4151

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - As a result of this statute, the state regularl y contributes a percentage of pay above what is actuarially required and established by the CalPERS Board. In 2024 ‑25, the state ’s supplemental payment under this section ranges from 0.1  percent of pay for Miscellaneous employees to 1.65  percent of pay for employees in the Peace Officer and Firefighter pension and is expected to total less than $100  million General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Sep 7, 2021 - For example, the smallest identified lag was that of Firefighter II with state compensation lagging local compensation b y 16 percent and the largest identified lag was that of Battalion Chief with state compensation lagging local compensation by 41 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4451

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Specifically, recent research suggests that communities the federal government designated in the 1930s as “hazardous ” for real estate investment through a process known as redlining tend to experience hotter temperatures and more flood risk than other areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575