Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Limit SIBTF Claims to Pre ‑Existing Disabilities That Interact With the Work Injury. Under current program rules, workers can qualify for SIBTF benefits even if the pre ‑existing condition does not interact with (or worsen the impact of) the work injury.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The survey found that while both state and local firefighters work 24-hour shifts, state firefighters work more days of the year (156 days compared with 121 days for the local fire departments in the survey).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under current state policy, state departments that allow state employees to work a hybrid schedule (meaning a portion of the work week in office and a portion of the work week from a remote location) must have a telework policy with a default minimum of two in-person days per work week.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Under current state policy, state departments that allow state employees to work a hybrid schedule (meaning a portion of the work week in office and a portion of the work week from a remote location) must have a telework policy with a default minimum of two in-office days per work week.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Sep 9, 2025 - During PLP 2025, employees would continue to work their assigned work schedules but their pay would be reduced by 3  percent. In exchange for the pay offset each month, Unit 18 members would receive five hours of PLP 2025 leave.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - This approach is used because it can be difficult to estimate in a given year (1)  the number of hours of overtime that will be worked and (2)  the cost of each of those hours as the cost depends on which employees work overtime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - The proposed agreement maintains the requirement established under the existing MOU that affected employees receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 212 hours during a 28-consecutive-day work period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Holiday Credit for Working on Observed Holidays. Under the agreement, employees in Work Week Group 2 who are required to work on an observed state holiday would be credited eight hours of holiday credit in addition to the premium pay they otherwise would receive for working on the holiday.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - Existing employees who have not yet worked 84 consecutive months would be eligible to receive the next qualifying bonus. (The agreement provides the example that an employee with 62 consecutive months of service would be eligible for the 6 percent of base pay salary at 72 consecutive months worked.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000)

Sep 7, 2023 - Employees represented by Local 1000 work in every county in California and some even work outside of the state; however, most of them work in Sacramento County. Compensation Study Local 1000 Represents Hundreds of Classifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799