The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Labor and Employment Issues

Oct 5, 2020 - (Drivers who deliver food for app-based delivery services are eligible.) Other employees would be eligible for the state supplemental two week paid sick leave program if they are: (1)  healthcare workers, (2)  emergency responders and public safety personnel, and (3)  employees of businesses with more than 500 employees nationwide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4274

Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - As a result, some California workers, including those who work for app-based companies, may be employees under California law but independent contractors under federal law. These workers likely are not eligible to receive employer-paid federal leave benefits under H.R.  6201.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - Specifically, across the levels I through V of the Attorney and Deputy Attorney General series, 15  percent of the 3,700 positions were vacant as of August 30, 2019. Among these classifications, the entry-level Attorney classification had the highest vacancy rate —19  percent —while the most senior classifications (Attorney V and Deputy Attorney General V) had the lowest vacancy rates (less than 9  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - However, we think such an approach would be a more effective inter im solution to reduce costs in 2024 ‑25 while the administration identifies specific one-time and ongoing reductions to include in its 2025 ‑26 budget proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - In February 2006, after finding that the state had failed to provide a constitutional level of medical care to people in prison, a federal court (in the case now referred to as Plata v. Newsom) appointed a Receiver to take control over the direct management of the state ’s prison medical care delivery system from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - In our v iew, the SPWEF, funded by fees paid only by contractors that are subject to prevailing wage requirements, is a preferable long-term funding source. Ideally, the prevailing wage determination function would eventually shift back to the SPWEF as compliance with the contractor registration requirement improves and fee revenues increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Aug 28, 2018 - Under this agreement, Caltrans likely would reduce its personnel costs by holding positions v acant and stopping its current recruitment efforts. If Caltrans had to resort to layoffs to reduce costs, civil service rules require that the least senior employees be laid off before more senior employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3880

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - According to the May 27, 2021 Joint Case Management Conference Statement from the federal court case, Marciano Plata, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, et al (known as Plata v. Newsom), while 71 percent of the incarcerated population in California state prisons has received at least on dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, only 49 percent of correctional staff have had at least one dose of a vaccine.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446