Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Labor and Employment Issues

Oct 5, 2020 - (Drivers who deliver food for app-based delivery services are eligible.) Other employees would be eligible for the state supplemental two week paid sick leave program if they are: (1)  healthcare workers, (2)  emergency responders and public safety personnel, and (3)  employees of businesses with more than 500 employees nationwide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4274

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - The administration has provided no evidence that the location-specific recruitment and retention payments established under the current MOU improved recruitment or retention efforts at the identified institutions over the course of the current MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 13 (Stationary Engineers)

Jun 24, 2022 - The agreement would provide four payments, each up to $750, over the course of the term of the agreement. The payments would be made in January 2023, August 2023, January 2024, and August 2024. Over the course of the agreement, employees could receive up to $3,000 from these payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4607

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

Jan 10, 2017 - Over the course of the agreements, most employees in these bargaining units would receive a total compounded pay increase of about 12  percent. These agreements provide larger compounded GSIs over the course of the agreements than the average 10  percent provided by the agreements already ratified by the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3520

Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - 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. These workers likely are not eligible to receive employer-paid federal leave benefits under H.R.  6201.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18

Aug 12, 2022 - The agreement would provide four payments, each up to $600, over the course of the term of the agreement. The payments would be made in January 2023, August, 2023, January 2024, and August 2024. Over the course of the agreement, employees could receive up to $2,400 from these payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4617

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Sep 7, 2023 - The agreement would provide three GSIs over the course of the agreement, specified below. 3  Percent July 1, 2023. All employees represented by Local 1000 would receive a 3  percent pay increase in 2023-24. 3  Percent July 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799