State Options to Expand Unemployment Benefits

Apr 9, 2020 - These estimate reflect the best information available right now. However, conditions are changing rapidly. Our estimates are, therefore, subject to significant uncertainty. Background State ’s Existing UI Benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4219

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - As such, the normal cost for the benefit earned by employees is the best estimate of the value of the employer-provided benefits earned today by employees and therefore the best way to compare pension benefits across employers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18 (Psychiatric Technicians)

Jan 9, 2020 - Past legislation aimed at establishing prohibitions or limitations on the state ’s ability to use mandatory overtime have been vetoed by past governors under the premise that it is an issue best handled at the bargaining table.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4134

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Most state employees earn a pension. The pension that an employee receives in retirement depends on the pension formula they earned during their career. The specific pension formula that an employee earns depends on their job and when they were hired.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under state law, vacation or annual leave is considered a form of wages that is vested when earned. As such, employers cannot adopt a “use it or lose it ” policy for earned employee vacation and annual leave whereby unused vacation or annual leave above a certain level is forfeited at the end of the year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - For example, the retirement benefits earned by state employees varies significantly depending on an employee ’s date of hire. A compensation study should compare wages but also should attempt to quantify the value of most of the ancillary benefits earned by employees in an effort to compare the value of total compensation earned by employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

COVID-19: Unemployment Insurance for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 23, 2020 - The amount of UI benefits a worker receives depends on how much they earned in the period leading up to their unemployment. Benefits are available for up to 26 weeks . To fund the benefits, employers pay a payroll tax on the first $7,000 of employee wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4208

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Maintaining regular and full payments to prefund the benefit is the best option to meet the policy goal of fully funding the benefit. Budget Three-Party Budget Deal Assumes Savings from State Employee Compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The administration has posted the agreement and a summary of the agreement and the administration’s estimated fiscal effects of the agreement on the California Department of Human Resources’ (CalHR’s) website.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Mar 14, 2017 - More information about this and other bargaining units and proposed agreements is available at our website . The administration has posted this agreement and summaries of the agreement and the administration’s fiscal estimates on its website.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3617