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

Sep 9, 2025 - These contributions are invested in a trust fund. Under the funding plan, the state may not use the assets of the trust fund to pay benefit costs until 2046 or the benefit is fully funded, whichever comes first.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Limit SIBTF Claims to Pre ‑Existing Disabilities That Interact With the Work Injury. Under current program rules, workers can qualify for SIBTF benefits even if the pre ‑existing condition does not interact with (or worsen the impact of) the work injury.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The reduced amount of money invested in the trust fund will result in higher unfunded liabilities in the long-run. In most of the agreements, the state ’s contributions towards the benefit would be fully restored in 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - In each of these months, Unit 6 members’ pay was reduced by between 4.62 percent and 13.86 percent. Between 2009-10 and 2010-11, Unit 6 members’ pay was reduced by 13.86 percent for 20 of the 24 months across the two fiscal years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The first is payment towards the “normal cost, ” which is the amount of money that actuaries determine (based on actuarial assumptions like expected investment returns on assets) must be contributed to prefund the benefit earned by employees today.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Jun 27, 2025 - While we are not at the bargaining table and do not know what issues were discussed, we feel it was a missed opportunity for the parties to not find a solution that simplified the prefunding arrangement while also helping address the current budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) [Publication Details]

Jul 14, 2025 - The current MOU between the state and UAPD expired on July 1, 2025. If the proposed successor MOU is not ratified, the provisions of the expired MOU generally would remain in effect as is required by the Ralph C.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5064

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Our analyses of the current memoranda of understanding (MOUs) between the state and these bargaining units and other labor agreements proposed in the past are available on our State Workforces webpages .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - The current memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and PECG is scheduled to expire June 30, 2025. Our analysis of the current MOU and other labor agreements proposed in the past are available on our State Workforce webpages .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061