The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In 2022-23, the state paid $25.5 billion (all funds) towards employee salaries. Salary-Driven Benefits. A salary-driven benefit is a benefit whose value is, at least in part, dependent on an employee ’s salary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - When CalHR did release a compensation study of Unit 6 compensation in 2023 (referred to as the 2022 compensation study because it relies on data from 2022), we were highly critical of the methodology adopted for the study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) Case SA-CE-2168-S. In 2022, UAPD filed a case with PERB against CCHCS. The complaint alleged that CCHCS violated the Dills Act by (1) implementing an integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment program and a Medication Assisted Treatment program without bargaining in good faith with the union and (2) failing to bargain in
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - The Legislature ’s decisions related to the 66-hour duty week in 2024-25 should be driven by the the economic conditions facing the state and the Legislature ’s priorities at that time. Interaction With Budget Approved 2022-23 Budget Includes Large Increase to CalFire Budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Study Not Helpful For the reasons described above, we find that CalHR ’s 2022 Unit  6 compensation study is not helpful in assessing how the state ’s total compensation for state correctional officers compares with the six counties included in the study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18

Aug 12, 2022 - The state ’s flat dollar contribution is specified in labor agreements and does not change after an agreement expires. The state ’s contribution for Unit 18 health benefits was last adjusted for 2022 premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4617

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 13 (Stationary Engineers)

Jun 24, 2022 - The state ’s flat dollar contribution is specified in labor agreements and does not change after an agreement expires. The state ’s contribution for Unit 13 health benefits was last adjusted for 2022 premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4607

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The state ’s flat dollar contribution is specified in labor agreements and does not change after an agreement expires. The state ’s contribution for Unit 2 health benefits was last adjusted for 2022 premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The Legislature did not know the full fiscal effect of a 66-hour duty week in August 2022. However, the Legislature now knows that a six-hour duty week reduction requires a substantial, new, and ongoing General Fund commitment of nearly $1  billion annually (by 2028-29).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The estimated 2023-24 costs to implement the proposed Unit 10 agreement represents about 6.4  percent of the state ’s Unit 10 payroll costs. If payroll costs for all 15 bargaining units and their associated excluded employees increased 6.4  percent, state General Fund payroll in 2023-24 would be more than $1  billion higher than 2022-23 levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665