The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - It is within the Legislature ’s prerogative to determine that such actions are necessary to address a budget problem. That being said, the Legislature must weigh such action against the damage that the action can bring to the state ’s relationship with its employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Pursuant to the Dills Act, the Legislature ’s action to not fund these scheduled pay increases in a ratified MOU means that (1)  the pay increases did not go into effect and (2)  the state and CAP-UAW can reopen the ratified 2024 MOU in whole or in part.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Further, it creates a precedent for (1)  other bargaining units this year to adopt similar actions and (2)  future Governors to see this action as an acceptable trade-off to address future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Further, it creates a precedent for (1)  other bargaining units this year to adopt similar actions and (2)  future Governors to see this action as an acceptable trade-off to address future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

Jul 14, 2025 - This creates a precedent for future Governors to see this action as an acceptable trade-off to address future budget problems. To the extent that this action is repeated in future years, the goal to fully fund the benefit will become increasingly elusive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - However, based on the cost to reduce it by six hours (from 72 hours to 66 hours), it seems reasonable to assume that such an action would increase annual costs by at least several hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s CalPERS Borrowing Proposal

May 16, 2017 - For much of the late 1990s and 2000s, the yield averaged around 6  percent, although it fell after the dot-com bust and ensuing recession in the early 2000s. After the rate fell in 2008, it has remained near zero as inflation and U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3673

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - In addition, electronic location tracking could be used for operational efficiency, safety, and security; however, such data could not be the sole basis for disciplinary action unless an employee ’s driving behavior or vehicle use constitutes cause for disciplinary action as defined by Section 19572 of the Government Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - There is an argument that some amount of the state ’s 2024 ‑25 contribution to CalSTRS could count toward Proposition  2 debt requirements, depending on interpretations and actions by the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Undoing deferrals and then taking the action again in the future results in more administrative complexity than other budgetary solutions like using reserves. For example, the 2009 ‑10 payroll deferral increased workload for the SCO when the state took the action to do and undo the deferral.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888