The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Recommendations [Video]

In these short videos, Senior Fiscal and Policy Analyst Nick Schroeder  explains how  the state  funds retiree health benefits and then discusses recommendations for legislative  consideration going forward.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=21&videoId=141

The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Background [Video]

View on YouTube . To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Background March 16, 2015
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=21&videoId=140

Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - Doing so will provide most workers a longer period of paid time off and allow them to save accrued sick leave under AB  1522 or employer policies for future needs. Federal Paid Leave Not Available to Independent Contractors, Even Those Who Are Employees Under State Law...
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - During most of this time, the state has paid for these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis after an employee is retired and receiving the benefit. Since the 1990s, the costs for this benefit have been among the fastes t growing costs in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - During most of this time, the state has paid for these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis after an employee is retired and receiving the benefit. Since the 1990s, the costs for this benefit have been among the fastes t growing costs in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 2025 - During most of this time, the state has paid for these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis from the General Fund after an employee is retired and receiving the benefit. Since the 1990s, the costs for this benefit have been among the fastest growing costs in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Jun 10, 2016 - At some point in the future, some share of the state ’s pay-as-you-go obligation to retiree health benefits will be paid from this account. The proposed agreement would institute a new arrangement to address unfunded retiree health benefits for Unit 12 members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3482

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Due to increases in health premiums and the number of retirees receiving the benefit, the state ’s pay-as-you-go costs for this benefit increase each year. The budget assumes that the state ’s pay-as-you-go costs in 2019-20 will be $2.2  billion General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Apr 4, 2016 - Change How Overtime Is Calculated. In general, employees receive overtime pay (1.5 times regular pay) for each additional hour worked more than 40 hours in a week. Under current law , any form of paid leave during the week “shall not be considered as time worked by the employee for purpose of computing cash compensation for overtime or compensating time off for overtime.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3409

State Options to Expand Unemployment Benefits

Apr 9, 2020 - Although we do not know how many workers are currently ineligible, undocumented workers likely represent the vast majority. (Immigration experts estimate that 1.75  million undocumented immigrants work in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4219