Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - The Legislature may want to consider whether the state should play a more proactive role in ensuring state labor standards adequately protect workers from the hazards that various climate change impacts present.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - We recognize that such an action would have shortfalls (for example, the Legislature would play no direct role in determining how reductions are applied); however, we think it would be simpler and have a greater likelihood of achieving a larger sh are of the assumed savings in 2024 ‑25 while the administration identifies specific reductions to propose for the 2025 ‑26 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - Seasonality plays a significant role in the relatively high rate of UI benefit receipt in certain industries such as agriculture and construction. Workers in these industries are much more likely to be regularly out of work, leading to greater total UI benefit claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503/1

The 2016-17 Budget: Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act Resources

Mar 25, 2016 - However, we believe that the Legislature has an important role to play in considering when employers should be granted relief from penalties imposed for violating labor law, and under what terms this relief should be granted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3403

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Funding Plan May Not Meet Principle of “Shared Responsibility”

Feb 2, 2016 - Depending upon how investment and other actuarial experience plays out, changes to the funding plan might be necessary to ensure the funding plan matches legislative intent. Specifically, if investments generally meet CalSTRS ’ assumptions, the Legislature may need to increase the state ’s contribution to ensure the state shares in the costs of addressing CalSTRS ’ unfunded liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3337

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - Part of that collective bargaining process is that the Legislature plays the key role in determining whether or not to ratify an agreement. Jamming the Legislature and minimizing public scrutiny of labor agreements before legislative consideration prevents the Leg islature and public from fully understanding the implications of the agreements before they become law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - These partnerships —also referred to as “innovation hubs ” —play a similar role to incubators by providing promising businesses mentorship opportunities, technical assistance, and start ‑up funding. These partnerships also tend to include incubators.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Federal agencies may therefore be better situated than the state to play a coordinating or incentivizing role. Moreover, the primary beneficiaries of adopting common data standards would primarily be private, for ‑profit companies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - One key question will be what role state programs and policies can and should play in adapting to climate change, including how they interact with local adaptation activities, and how they should be funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

CalSTRS Funding: An Update

May 5, 2017 - While the way in which investments and other factors play out (what actuaries call “experience ”) matters in the near term, the purpose of an actuarial valuation is to determine whether contributions from governments and public employees will be sufficient to cover the cost of providing pension benefits to those employees over the next several decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3662