The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Collective bargaining between the Governor and the state ’s rank-and-file employees (organized into 21 bargaining units) is governed by the Ralph C. Dills Act (Dills Act). The product of negotiations at the bargaining table is a labor agreement referred to as a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The administration ’s fiscal estimates indicate that nearly 1,400 rank-and-file and nearly 500 excluded employees have more than 18 years of service and currently receive a seniority payment. The administration estimates that the higher tiers for employees with 27 or more years of service would apply to 180 rank-and-file employees and 80 excluded employees, increasing annual state costs by about $2.2  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

The 2021-22 Budget: Interest Payment on Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2021 - The 2021-22 Governor’s Budget proposes $555 million General Fund to make the first interest payment on federal loans the state received to pay unemployment insurance (UI) benefits after the UI fund became insolvent during the pandemic. Our office’s estimate of the upcoming interest payment is much lower—about $260 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4360

The 2021-22 Budget: Interest Payment on Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 10, 2021 - The 2021-22 Governor’s Budget proposes $555 million General Fund to make the first interest payment on federal loans the state received to pay unemployment insurance (UI) benefits after the UI fund became insolvent during the pandemic. Our office’s estimate of the upcoming interest payment is much lower—about $260 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4360

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) and Unit 10 rank-and-file workers and (2)  between unit 10 rank-and-file workers and their supervisors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The costs discussed above are only those associated with rank-and-file employees. Many of the compensation increases likely would be extended to managers and supervisors to avoid “salary compaction ” (where rank-and-file pay increases faster than managerial pay).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The costs discussed above are only those associated with rank-and-file employees. Many of the compensation increases likely would be extended to managers and supervisors to avoid “salary compaction ” (when rank-and-file pay increases faster than managerial pay).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000)

Sep 7, 2023 - Local 1000 represents about one-half of the state ’s rank-and-file employees. As of July 1, 2023, Employees represented by Local 1000 work under the terms and conditions of an expired memorandum of understanding (MOU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - Background Legislature ’s Role in Establishing Rank-and-File State Employee Compensation Legislative and Employee Ratification of Labor Agreements Is Final Step in Collective Bargaining Process. Compensation for rank-and-file state employees —constituting about 80  percent of the state workforce —is established through the collective bargaining process under the Ralph C.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 and Unit 10 rank-and-file workers and (2)  between unit 10 rank-and-file workers and their supervisors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665