MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - PLP 2025 =Personal Leave Program 2025; Local 1000 = Nine bargaining units represented by Service Employee International Union, Local 1000: Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21. 66-Hour Duty Week Reduction of Duty Week to 66 Hours Approved in 2024-25 Budget, Full Implementation Not Expected Before 2028-29.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - Specifically, the agreement would phase in the restoration of contribution by requiring the state and employees to increase their contributions by 1.5  percent of pay in 2027-28 (to a total of 1.5  percent of pay), 2028-29 (to a total of 3  percent of pay), and 2029-30 (to a total of 4.5  percent of pay).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - The budget proposal assumed that the costs would increase in the coming years, rising to $770  million ($756  million General Fund) on an annual basis and 2,457 permanent positions by 2028-29. For reference, as of December 2023, there were 4,724 authorized Unit 8 positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Since 2015, the number of authorized psychiatrist positions increased 70  percent, compared with a 29  percent increase across the bargaining unit. While the growth in psychiatry positions could be a contributing factor to the 46  percent vacancy rate today, the vacancy rate among authorized psychiatrist positions has consistently been above 40  percent since 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Jun 27, 2025 - The agreement creates a goal that the state and employees would again each contribute one-half of the normal cost by July 1, 2029. The agreement would phase this policy into effect with the state and employees each contributing (1)  1.4  percent of pay, for a total of 2.8  percent of pay, in 2027-28; (2)  2.7  percent of pay, for a total of 5.4  percent of pay,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Unit 6 rank-and-file and affiliated excluded employees account for 29  percent of the state ’s General Fund salary and salary-driven benefit costs. Furloughs Long History of Using Furloughs to Address State Budget Problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - On March  29, 2024, CalHR formally submitted to the Legislature its implementation plan of the LBFO and requested that the Legislature approve necessary statutory changes and funding appropriations for its full implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 2 (Attorneys and Hearing Officers)

Aug 29, 2016 - Under the agreement, all Unit 2 members contribute 0.7  percent of pay to a retiree health funding account beginning effective July 1, 2017, rising to 1.3  percent of pay on July 1, 2018, and rising again to 2  percent of pay beginning on July 1, 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3495

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - DOJ recently increased its legal billing rates to $220 per hour for attorney services —an increase of $50 (or 29  percent). (Rates for paralegal services and analyst services were similarly increased.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Figure 1 Status of Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings Ratified by Chapter 25 of 2025 (SB 139, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) Unit 1 Administrative, Financial, and Staff Services Unit 2
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063