MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP identified some specific behavioral changes that can occur when a DROP is offered that can affect the cost of the benefit including (1)  members might postpone retirement longer due to the financial advantages of DROP, (2)  the member might make the decision to enter DROP and the decision of their final retirement date to coincide with
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Medical Education Leave. The agreement would increase the number of medical education leave hours that Unit 16 members receive each fiscal year from 56 hours to 60 hours. The agreement also increases the number of continuing medical education leave hours that employees may carry over year over year from 112 hours to 120 hours.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Twice each year through June 30, 2028, the parties would discuss methods and opportunities to improve the state ’s ability to recruit and retain Unit 18 members. Contracting Out. Twice a year, the parties would meet to examine existing personal services contracts that call for services found in Unit 18 class specifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Administration Provides No Evidence That Location-Specific Payments Under Current MOU Improved Recruitment or Retention at Identified Institutions. The administration has provided no evidence that the location-specific recruitment and retention payments established under the current MOU improved recruitment or retention efforts at the identified institutions over the course of the current MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Suspension of Employer and Employee OPEB Contributions Missed Opportunity to Improve OPEB Prefunding Arrangement. We long have been critical of the state ’s retiree health prefunding strategy. We have found that establishing a benefit that fundamentally has no bearing on an employee ’s salary to be funded as a percentage of pay is overly complicated and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by the target date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - These bargaining units include the nine units represented by Local 1000 (Units 1 [administrative, financial, and staff services], 3 [professional educators and librarians], 4 [office and allied], 11 [engineering and scientific technicians], 14 [printing and allied trades], 15 [allied services], 1 7 [registered nurses], 20 [medical and social services], and 21
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Unit 9 ’s current members are represented by the Professional Engineers in California Government ( PECG ). The current memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and PECG is scheduled to expire June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Unit 16’s current members are represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). 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

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As such, the current employer tax does not fully capture employers ’ financial exposure to SIBTF claims because most claims each year go unprocessed. In recent years, the state has processed between 500 and 800 claims annually, or roughly one ‑fifth of all incoming claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

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