The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - Under the SNF training model, SNFs hire their own instructors (often employees of the SNF) and often pay students hourly wages while they receive training. In exchange, SNFs typically ask, but do not require, students to commit to working at the SNF for a specified amount of time (such as one year) after becoming a CNA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

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

Jan 14, 2019 - These slots would be on top of the almost 9,000 full ‑day slots the state added over the past three years. Extending preschool to all children from low ‑income families is consistent with considerable research that has concluded the benefits of preschool are greatest for these children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - Staffing Rotation Models. As we referenced in our March 2024 analysis , CalFire intends to adjust its staffing rotation to a platoon model where firefighters rotate on and off duty as a group rather than individually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 budget provided HCAI  with $60  million General Fund to support the Song ‑Brown Program, intended to increase the number of primary care providers statewide by funding primary care residency training slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

Recent Changes to State and County IHSS Wage and Benefit Costs

Dec 14, 2018 - How the Local Wage Supplement Model Works The local wage supplement model was initially established as a part of the 2017 ‑18 budget package. In March  2018, additional clarifying language was passed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3913

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Under its longstanding workforce training model, the CWDB convenes training parties and funds a portion of the total training costs. Training costs might include worker pay during training, costs for curriculum development, and instructor pay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

The 2018-19 Budget: Statewide Prison to Employment Initiative

Mar 12, 2018 - The main logic of the proposal makes sense: (1)  link in-prison CTE, post-release reentry services, and AJCC job training in order to (2)  provide ex-offenders better and expanded services, which (3)  improve employment outcomes and, as a result, (4)  helps ex-offenders remain crime-free.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3781

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 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - This action would free up $2.2  million in the SPWEF on an ongoing basis and would largely address the funding imbalance going forward, even if contractor registration fee revenues remain flat in future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

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

Jun 27, 2025 - This agreement could be used as a model for agreements with the other 13 bargaining units with active agreements if they choose to come to the table this year. Further, this agreement could serve as a precedent for any policies that the administration might seek to impose on any of the other bargaining units (whether they have an active MOU or not) should the final budget package grant the administration that authority.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060