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

Feb 15, 2022 - Throughout the state, ports and other facilities operate training sites. To better understand the need for state funding, the Legislature will want to request the administration provide additional information on how these sites have been funded and built in the past, as well as why the proposed campus needs state funding, while other training sites have not required state fundi ng.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Therefore, we recommend the Legislature require an estimation of the fiscal effect and time line to implement a 56-hour duty week be provided prior to any discussion during the successor MOU negotiations in 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - Though ETP does not have a detailed expenditure plan at this time, it indicates it likely would allocate some of the $2.5  million to SNFs that currently operate on-site CNA training programs to expand those programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

The 2020-21 Budget: Improving the State's Unpaid Wage Claim Process

Feb 19, 2020 - While the exact outcomes of adding these staff are unknown, the severity of the existing delays —particularly given the statutory time line —warrants additional resources. Take Broader Look at State ’s Wage Claim Process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4165

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - After Unit 6 salaries were decoupled from Unit 5 salaries in 2006, the salary growth moderated and today is in line with inflation growth. In contrast, after 2006, Unit 5 average base pay continued to grow much faster than inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The agreement would clarify that employees may meet with CAPS-UAW representatives on representational matters and CAPS-UAW may have access to employees both at a physical work site as well as virtually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - There are four major types of pay increases: General Salary Increases (pay increases that apply to everyone in a bargaining unit), Special Salary Adjustments (pay increases that apply to select members of a bargaining unit, typically applying to specific classifications), top step increases (pay increases only for employees at the tops step of their salary range), and pay diff erentials (pay
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The turnover rate among state psychiatrists was in line with the statewide rates: retirement rates and involuntary separation rates were lower than the statewide averages and the rate of voluntary separations —meaning employees voluntarily leave state service to work for a different employer —was slightly higher than the statewide average (3.7  percent compared with 3.6  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Jun 27, 2025 - In particular, while retirement rates among Unit 12 members is in line with state averages, the involuntary and voluntary separations are above the state average. This suggests that Unit 12 members are more likely to separate from state service before retirement compared with other state workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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