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

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The agreement specifies CalHR and Local 2881 “to meet on or before February 1, 2026 to allow CAL FIRE Local 2881 an opportunity to present a DROP program to the State. ” We describe DROP policies in the “LAO Comments ” section.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - If the number of claims remains steady at around 3,000 per year and the state processes all incoming claims, the annual employer tax would climb to $2  billion to $3  billion before stabilizing near that level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - And, yet, the administration and unions consistently submit labor agreements to the Legislature with just days before a major legislative deadline. In the case of this agreement, days before the end of the legislative session.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

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

Jun 27, 2025 - This suggests that Unit 12 members are more likely to separate from state service before retirement compared with other state workers. Declining Years of Service. In 2003, the average Unit 12 member had more than 11 years of state service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - In the event that the proposed agreement is not ratified before June 30, 2025, the provisions of the current MOU generally would remain in effect as is required under the Ralph C. Dills Act . This analysis of the proposed agreement fulfills our statutory requirement under Section 19829.5 of the Government Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Before discussing the specifics of the Governor ’s proposal in this analysis, we provide background information on the major components of state employee compensation, past strategies the state has used to reduce employee compensation costs in both the short and long term, and the collective bargaining process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Other Issues)

Jun 19, 2015 - Specific changes include: Drought Water System Consolidation. Authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to require water systems serving disadvantaged communities with unsafe or unreliable water supplies to merge with or receive water from other public water systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3278

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These conditions decrease the amount of spring and early summer snowmelt runoff upon which the state historically has depended for its annual water supply, at the same time that they increase the demand for irrigation water in both agricultural and urban settings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575