MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Limitation of Electronic Monitoring. The proposed agreement would establish a number of limitations on the state ’s ability to electronically monitor Unit 10 members. The state would be prohibited from using an employee ’s log on/off time, electronic access card entry/exit times, or other “online status ” in any electronic application as the sole source of attendance reporting or as the sole reason of discipline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - For example, 8  percent of Unit 16 positions are vacant at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe but 64  percent at Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) in Soledad. The vacancy rate also varies by occupation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

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

Sep 7, 2023 - With the exceptions of Units 3 and 21, the bargaining units represented by Local 1000 are comprised mostly of people of color. Overall, Local 1000 represents 56  percent of the people of color in the rank-and-file workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799

The 2022-23 Budget: State Payments on the Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 15, 2022 - Other claimants may have given up in frustration after trying unsuccessfully to send requested documentation to EDD. Since state UI fraud was less widespread than fraud in the temporary federal programs, state UI fraud does not appear to have notably increased the amount of federal UI loans that the state and employers are to repay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4543

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - This statutory comparison predates the state employee collective bargaining process established by the Ral ph C. Dills Act. (Prior to collective bargaining, the State Personnel Board [SPB] annually would recommend to the Legislature salary ranges for classifications.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Other claimants may have given up in frustration after trying unsuccessfully to send requested documentation to EDD. While widespread frustration and an inability to contact EDD are problematic for other reasons, the claims from this group of workers did not represent fraudulent ac tivity so including them contributes to the overstatement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Similarly, rural communities that are at greater risk of experiencing water shortages due to droughts tend to be home to large proportions of households with residents of color and who earn lower incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - (The budget for CSU includes an additional $ 64  m illion ongoing to cover higher retiree health benefit and pension costs.) For UC, $ 200  m illion of its ongoing augmentation is intended to cover increases in operating costs (including some employee compensation costs), student success initiatives, student hunger and housing initiatives, mental health services, and 2018 ‑ 19 e nrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - The budget assumes 27,000 seniors will gain comprehensive coverage at a half ‑year cost of $ 64  m illion General Fund in 2020 ‑21 and an annual ongoing cost of $ 320  m illion General Fund at full implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Savings Plus Program: An Optional Retirement Benefit for State Employees

Mar 14, 2017 - Senate committee by the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College, the median 401(k) balance for employees aged between 55  years and 64  years who earn between $61,000 and $90, 999 —the pay range in which the average state employee falls —was about $100,000 in 2013.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3616