MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Moreover, when the administration proposes new policy changes through the collective bargaining process, the administration typically provid es little justification for why the policy is designed a specific way.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Specifically, whether a co mpensation study is prepared by CalHR or a third party, any decisions about design, methodology, preparation, conduct, and reporting of the study should (1)  be developed without consultation with bargaining unit representatives and, instead, be the product solely of the study preparer; (2)  result in compensation studies that are consistent across all
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Unit 9 consists of professional engineers who design and oversee the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, buildings, dams, and other infrastructure throughout the state. Unit 9 ’s current members are represented by the Professional Engineers in California Government ( PECG ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - Effective the pay period following ratification or November 1, 2024, whichever is later, the agreement would provide $50 to employees who are not in a designated Paramedic position but maintain an Emergency Medical Technician —Paramedic license in good standing for each day that they work voluntary overtime behind a designated Paramedic position vacancy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The employing agency may designate Unit 10 positions as eligible to receive bilingual pay. The proposed agreement would double the monthly bilingual, pay differential available to eligible Unit 10 employees from $100 to $200 per month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

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

Sep 7, 2023 - Employees work as printing trade specialists, graphic designers, and bookbinders. While some employees work in various departments, most work for the Department of General Services (DGS) at the Office of State Publishing where the state budget, bills and laws, and other state documents are printed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - A regularly occurring, well-designed, and well-executed compensation study helps provide the Legislature a baseline from which to assess (1)  the state ’s current position as an employer in the labor market and (2)  the effect that any proposed employee compensation policy might have on the state ’s position as an employer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Specifically, recent research suggests that communities the federal government designated in the 1930s as “hazardous ” for real estate investment through a process known as redlining tend to experience hotter temperatures and more flood risk than other areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Feb 15, 2022 - In the words of the strike team report: “In interviews and observations, stories and anecdotes about fraud and/or suspected fraud were often used to explain why EDD could not act quickly to avoid the growth of the backlog. [ …] There has developed at EDD a culture of allowing fear of fraud to trump all other considerations … ” The department ’s longstanding institutional design
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - The state also likely will incur costs from the need to expand its workforce in other areas to respond to climate change impacts —such as by hiring additional engineers and scientists to assess vulnerabilities, plan for adaptation strategies, and design and implement the state ’s responses to climate risks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587