The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - The state hired ID.me to confirm workers ’ identities using so ‑called “one ‑to ‑one ” face matching; that is, when a computer algorithm matches the photo or video submitted by the worker to the worker ’s identification card.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

The 2020-21 Budget: Staffing to Address New Independent Contractor Test

Feb 11, 2020 - Analysis Predicting AB  5 Workload Difficult at This Early Stage . . . As we noted earlier, at this time we cannot predict how many contractors will be reclassified and hired as employees due to AB  5.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4151

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 2 (Attorneys and Hearing Officers)

Aug 29, 2016 - (This maximum contributions is sometimes referred to as the “100/90 formula.”) Most Unit 2 members—those hired after 1989—receive 50 percent of the maximum contribution from the state if they retire with 10 years of service, with this amount growing each year until it reaches 100 percent of the maximum contribution if they retire after 20 or more years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3495

Savings Plus Program: An Optional Retirement Benefit for State Employees

Mar 14, 2017 - (Retired employees with ten years of state service receive 50  percent of this amount, increasing 5  percent annually until the 100  percent level is earned.) Most state retirees are eligible to receive the full 100/90 contribution from the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3616

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The Legislature’s calendar is highly predictable with legislative deadlines publicly known many months in advance. And, yet, the administration and unions consistently submit labor agreements to the Legislature with just days before a major legislative deadline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - The proposed agreement increases the amount of reimbursement that employees may receive for their costs related to mass transit and vanpools from 75  percent to 100   percent —up to the maximum monthly exclusion amount allowed by the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

Jan 10, 2017 - This maximum contribution is sometimes referred to as the “100/90 formula. ” In 2017, the 100/90 formula entitles retirees to a maximum state contribution towards their health care of $707 per month for single coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3520

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety)

Jun 24, 2016 - These proposed pay and benefit increases—along with the state contributions to match employee payments to a retiree health funding account—would be a significant new budgetary commitment for the state with both near- and long-term effects on state obligations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3486

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

Jun 10, 2016 - (This maximum contribution is sometimes referred to as the “100/90 formula.”) Unit 12 members hired after 1989 but before 2011 receive 50 percent of the maximum contribution from the state if they retire with 10 years of service, with this amount growing each year until it reaches 100 percent of the maximum contribution if they retire after 20 or more years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3482

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Apr 4, 2016 - These proposed pay and benefit increases —along with state contributions to match employee payments to a retiree health funding account —would be a significant new budgetary commitment for the state General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3409