The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (CalPERS) determines how much money must be contributed each year to fund the pension benefit. There are two components of the total contribution to CalPERS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - We repeatedly have raised concerns with the current prefunding strategy since the time the previous administration first proposed that the state and employees each pay one-half of the normal cost (see our initial response to the strategy; our comments on the labor agreements implementing the strategy for Units 6 , 9 , and Local 1000 ; and our 2020 analysis of the labor agreements that established PLP 2020).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Long ‑Term Strategies. The  current supply chain disruptions are the result of both short ‑term issues, such as greater consumer demand, as well as long ‑term issues, such as the capacity and resilience of the goods movement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

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

Jun 25, 2020 - The current Local 1000 agreement provides all employees represented by Local 1000 who are enrolled in a California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (CalPERS) health plan effective July 1, 2020 a $260 monthly payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4257

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, the state could encourage employers to implement adaptation strategies, such as installing air conditioning units and shifting work hours to cooler parts of the day. Such adaptation strategies will range in costs and burden to employers and workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The department informed us that (1) the working group did not meet and, consequently, did not produce any strategies to improve recruitment and retention of female staff but (2) the department independently has implemented strategies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - For example, CAAP noted that when the San Francisco City and County Employees Retirement System implemented a DROP, members entered DROP at rates 50  percent to 75  percent higher than the system had assumed would occur.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Beginning July 1, 2026, the current MOU allows for employee contributions towards their retirement benefits to increase in the event that California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (CalPERS) determines that the normal cost of the benefit increases by more than 1  percent of pay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

Sep 9, 2025 - OPEB Prefunding State Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) Prefunding Strategy. For most of the more than six decades that the state has offered its employees retiree health benefits, the state did not prefund the benefit but instead paid the cost on a pay-as-you-go basis after employees retired.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - The state likely also will incur costs from the need to expand its workforce in other areas to respond to climate change impacts —such as by hiring additional engineers and scientists to assess vulnerabilities, plan for adaptation strategies, and design and implement the state ’s responses to climate risks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575