MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - For example, the share of CHP officers who are white and male has decreased from 61  percent in 2017 to 51  percent in 2024. Further, in 2024, only 20  percent of CHP cadets were identified as white and male.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - (For more information about this debt, see: The 2017‑18 Budget: The Governor’s CalPERS Borrowing Proposal and The 2018‑19 Budget: Repaying the CalPERS Borrowing Plan .) Debt Payments Must Supplement —Not Supplant —Funding for Two Years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The valuation does not provide separate normal costs for the benefit for employee hired before 2017 versus those hired after 2017; however, the normal cost for the benefit earned by new employees certainly is lower than the normal cost for the benefit earned by employees hired before 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - In our 2017 analysis of this process, we concluded that the budget position transparency process lacked transparency. The Legislature amended Control Section 4.11 to end this review beginning in 2021‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - When we reviewed the 2018 MOU , CalHR informed us that (1) the administration and CCPOA met beginning August 2017 and reached a consensus on the study’s methodology by mid-October 2017, (2) the survey was mailed to six county employers in mid-October 2017, (3) CalHR completed a draft compensation report by mid-February 2018, (4) CalHR shared a
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206

The 2020-21 Budget: Improving the State's Unpaid Wage Claim Process

Feb 19, 2020 - However, in 2017, about 60  percent of workers who received an award ultimately recovered zero wages, despite being awarded about $60  million in unpaid wages. (This is because employers did not pay the amount awarded.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4165

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Pensions

Oct 12, 2020 - The California State Teachers ’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) Funding Plan, Chapter  47 of 2014 (AB  1469, Bonta), gave the CalSTRS board limited authority to increase the state ’s contribution rate to the pension system ’s Defined Benefit program by up to 0.5  percent of payroll annually, beginning in 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4279

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18 (Psychiatric Technicians)

Jan 9, 2020 - The compensation study relied on data from 2017 and found that state-employed psychiatric technicians earn a median salary that is comparable to the market average but that median total compensation (accounting for salary and benefits) for state-employed psychiatric technicians is about 16  percent above the market average.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4134

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - As shown in Figure  6 , from 2017 ‑18 through 2019 ‑20, the state averaged more than 1,600 schools closed due to wildfires annually, compared to an annual average of about 70 schools from 2008‑09 to 2016‑17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Jun 25, 2021 - In 2018, CalHR informed us that (1)  the administration and CCPOA met beginning August 2017 and reached a consensus on the study ’s methodology by mid-October 2017, (2)  the survey was mailed to six county employers in mid-October 2017, (3)  CalHR completed a draft compensation report by mid-February 2018, (4)  CalHR shared a draft report with
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446