Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Prior to the pandemic, at the start of 2020, the state ’s UI  trust fund held $3.3  billion in reserves. Despite these reserves, the state ’s UI trust fund became insolvent during the summer of 2020, a few months following the start of the pandemic and associated job losses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4543

Repaying the State’s Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

May 26, 2021 - Prior to the pandemic, at the start of 2020, the state ’s UI trust fund held $3.3  billion in reserves. Despite these reserves, the state ’s UI trust fund became insolvent during the summer of 2020, a few months following the start of the pandemic and associated job losses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4442

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - Incubators assist entrepreneurs and start ‑ups with developing their businesses. Incubators can provide a variety of services, ranging from management training, facility space, and start ‑up financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Unit 18 members work under the terms and conditions established under an MOU that expired at the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. Pursuant to the Dills Act, the terms and conditions of an expired MOU generally remain in effect until a successor MOU is ratified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Mar 14, 2017 - Since we started analyzing proposed labor agreements about a decade ago, most of the agreements the Legislature has ratified have had terms of about two years. (In general, these agreements were consistent with our 2007 recommendation to the Legislature not to approve any proposed labor agreements with a term of more than two years.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3617

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - Divorcing the deadline of the total compensation report from the bargaining cycle is a good start, but we think that it can be further amended to improve legislative oversight. We discuss these recommended changes below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 26, 2019 - The agreement increases employee contributions over the course of the agreement by 1 percent of pay each year starting in 2020‑21. Consequently, employee contributions would be 12.5 percent of pay in 2020‑21, 13.5 percent of pay in 2021‑22, and 14.5 percent of pay in 2022‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4089

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Given the administration would not begin to identify reductions until after the start of the fiscal year in which reductions are assumed to occur, achieving the full amount of savings seems even more unlikely.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888