MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18

Aug 12, 2022 - CAPT informs us that there is no hands-an component in the training given to staff at CDCR. Direction for Additional Duties. Employees are assigned duties in addition to their normal daily assignments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4617

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Under federal l aw, state and local government employers may continue to exclude some employees from Social Security coverage, but only if those employees are enrolled in a retirement plan that meets federal regulations requiring at least a specified level of benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Sep 7, 2021 - The administration informs us that the committee would be advisory in nature and has no power to directly implement policies that address these issues. Instead, the administration indicates that the committee ’s recommendations would inform future bargaining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4451

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Treatment of Teacher Contributions Also Increase District Unfunded Liabilities

Feb 2, 2016 - To us, the funding law did not appear to intend for districts to pay for part of that $8 billion share. CalSTRS ’ policy implementing the funding plan instead uses higher teacher contributions to pay for a part of future funding shortfalls when investments underperform assumptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3335

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6

Jun 14, 2019 - However, after reviewing what data are available to us —discussed below —we think that Unit  6 compensation levels likely are sufficient to allow correctional facilities to meet personnel needs at this present time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4078

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: CalSTRS Funding Plan Relies on Abstract Calculation

Feb 2, 2016 - Plan Seemed Relatively Simple to Us. When the Legislature passed the funding plan in 2014, we understood it to be a relatively simple approach. The total $74 billion unfunded liability would be divided up between school and community college districts ($47 billion), the state ($20 billion), and teachers ($8 billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3333

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Sep 4, 2015 - The information that the administration has provided to us does not address the key issues we raised earlier this year. For example, the administration appears to have given no consideration to the degree to which the provisions create contractual obligations for the state to provide a certain level of health benefits to retired state employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3296

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

Jun 27, 2025 - As such, we prepared this analysis for the Legislature as is required of us under Section 19829.5. The administration has posted on the California Department of Human Resources’ (CalHR’s) website the agreement , a summary of the agreement, and a summary of the administration’s estimates of the proposed agreement’s fiscal effects .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Labor and Employment Issues

Oct 5, 2020 - Under state law, PAGA allows employees to sue their employers to collect a share of penalties associated with labor l aw violations. Penalties and settlement awards from PAGA lawsuits are distributed 75  percent to the LWDF and 25  percent to the plaintiffs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4274

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - In addition to the official compensation study compiled by CalHR, two other compensation studies (one conducted by the California Department of Justice and the other conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles) provided to us by the union that represents attorneys (California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, and Hearing Officers in State Employment [CASE])
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206