The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Short ‑Term vs. Long ‑Term Strategies. The  current supply chain disruptions are the result of both short ‑term issues, such as greater consumer demand, as well as long ‑term issues, such as the capacity and resilience of the goods movement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

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

Jun 10, 2016 - In the case of Unit 12 members who work at CDCR, the allowance is provided as a meal ticket that must be used at an institution ’s snack bar or employee dining room within 24 hours. The agreement would increase (1) the overtime meal allowance for employees at Caltrans and CDCR by $2 (from $6 to $8) and (2) the amount of time CDCR employees have to use the meal ticket from 24 hours to ten days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3482

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

Feb 11, 2020 - New Law Also Exempts Some Professions From the ABC Test. The new law exempts some professions from the new test. These workers may continue working as independent contractors. Workers excluded from the new test include, among others, physicians, construction contractors, real estate agents, attorneys, accountants, private detectives, and travel agents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4151

Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - The federal test to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor is different than the state test. As a result, some California workers, including those who work for app-based companies, may be employees under California law but independent contractors under federal law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The threat to the health and safety of both people living in prisons and working in prisons resulted in the administration implementing a number of personnel policies related to staff testing for the virus, mask wearing, and vaccination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Labor and Employment Issues

Oct 5, 2020 - Funds will be used to train auditors to apply the new test and hire auditors to prepare audits for additional employer appeals that are expected as a result of the law. The budget plan also sets aside $3.2  million General Fund in 2021 ‑22 and $2  million General Fund in 2022 ‑23 for these purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4274

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

Jan 10, 2017 - Unit 12: Rejected Agreement vs. Proposed Agreement Last year, the Legislature ratified a tentative agreement between the state and Unit 12. This agreement did not go into effect, however, because it subsequently was rejected by Unit 12 members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3520

The 2018-19 Budget: Statewide Prison to Employment Initiative

Mar 12, 2018 - In our view, the Legislature designed the ForwardFocus grant program as a test of whether workforce services for ex-offenders could be integrated at the local level to better assist ex-offenders gain stable employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3781

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Under Longstanding EDD Practices, Workers Must Pass Multiple Identity Tests. When an unemployed worker submits a claim for UI payments, EDD confirms the worker ’s identifying information with the federal Social Security Administration and the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The agreement specifies that the department currently is testing an external vest carrier and that employees would be able to purchase an external vest carrier and receive the reimbursement after the departmen t has approved use of the equipment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920