MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We raised concerns in 2019 that CalHR withheld (and continues to withhold) a compensation study it completed in 2018 (see our June 2019 analysis ) and proceeded to not produce compensation studies in 2019, 2020, or 2021 despite new agreements being submitted to the Legislature in those years (see our June 2021 analysis ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - The current liabilities figure likely sits closer to $11  billion or $12  billion. Over the next few years, this figure will rise as additional lifetime benefit claims make their way through the SIBTF claims process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The compensation reductions established under these agreements were in effect through 2020-21 and were restored through agreements in 2021-22. Bargaining Concessions Lead to Offsetting Costs Down the Road.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Notwithstanding Section 19829.5, Section 11 of Chapter  25 provided legislative ratification of any labor agreement that (1)  was entered into by the state employer and a state bargaining unit between June 21, 2025 and June 30, 2025 and (2)  included savings measures to achieve budgeted reductions pursuant to Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 Budget Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Jun 25, 2021 - On June 11, 2021, the administration and CASE agreed to a successor MOU that would be in effect through June 30, 2022. The proposed agreement ends PLP 2020 and establishes other provisions, discussed in greater detail below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Specifically, using data reported in the state budget, the number of state employees grew by more than 11  percent from 226,000 state employees in 2011 ‑12 to more than 251,000 state employees in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - In a March 11, 2024 letter in response to a request from the Legislative Committee of the State Association of County Retirement Systems, the actuarial panel provided insights into the cost considerations for DROPs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jul 14, 2025 - OPEB = Other Post ‑Employment Benefits and Local 1000 = Nine bargaining units represented by Service Employee International Union, Local 1000: Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21. Telework Stipend.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Since October 2021, Unit 9 members have been eligible to receive a monthly telework stipend. Employees who are identified as being “remote centered ” are eligible to receive $50 per month. Employees who are identified as “office centered ” are eligible to receive $25 per month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The compensation study found that state civil (representing 52 percent of the bargaining unit) and environmental (representing 11 percent of the bargaining unit) engineers are compensated above market.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620