Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - State law allows employers to adopt a leave cap whereby employees do not accrue new vacation leave once their leave balance has reached the cap. 640-Hour Cap. The state caps the amount of vacation or annual leave that most state workers —including Unit 9 —may accumulate at 640 hours (80 days).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Parties Reached Agreement to Successor MOU in December 2022, but Union Membership Rejected Agreement and Relations Deteriorated. On December 22, 2022, our office received a proposed MOU between the state and Unit 10.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - A DROP allows members of a pension system who reach retirement eligibility to elect to continue working while freezing the service credit and other variables that affect members ’ pension calculations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Systematically underfunding the benefit for five years makes reaching the full funding target very unlikely. Moreover, although the agreement would reinstate current contr ibution levels by July 1, 2029, those levels may not reflect normal cost at that time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - The 2019 MOU retained the sentence at the bottom of the provision stating that Section 15.19 is inoperable; however, it also added at sentence at the top of the provision: “The parties agree that this section shall remain dormant for the term of this MOU and that no Total Compensation Report will be created for the successor MOU.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Under the Dills Act, the provisions of an expired MOU generally remain in effect until a successor agreement is reached between the parties. Under the Dills Act, an MOU does not go into effect unless it is ratified by both the Legislature and the members of the union representing the affected bargaining unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - At its peak in September 2020, the backlog reached 1.7  million claims. At the Same Time, New Federally Funded UI Benefit Hit by Fraud. At the same time that the backlog of delayed UI  claims was increasing, fraudulent activity in the new federal benefit program for self ‑employed workers spiked.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542