The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Since 1992-93, furloughs have been used in nine fiscal years (1992-93, 1993-94, 2003-04, 2008-09 through 2012-13, and 2020-21). Furloughs typically reduce state employee pay by roughly 5  percent for every day-per-month of furlough.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - As we indicated in 2008 and 2015 and the State Auditor indicated in 2002 , this law was ineffective as most chronically vacant positions were never eliminated and departments found ways to preserve their position authority.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - As we discussed in our 2008 analysis , CDCR experienced high vacancies and recruitment challenges for correctional officers in the early 2000s that were addressed through operational changes as well as significant increases to correctional officer compensation provided by the Unit 6 MOU that was in effect from 2001 to 2006.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Labor Agreements: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, AND 21

Jun 25, 2020 - When most state services were closed on Furlough Fridays beginning in 2008 ‑09, there were longer wait times and limited opportunities for the public to receive service for essential government services like those provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4257

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 - Although CalHR conducts an annual survey comparing highway patrol officers ’ compensation with compensation provided to comparable classifications at five local jurisdictions, CalHR has not conducted a total compensation study comparing highway patrol officer compensation with other employers since 2008.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

The 2020-21 Budget: Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Sep 9, 2020 - The budget assumes that employee compensation is reduced by up to 10 percent in 2020-21. This analysis provides a historical record of all the labor agreements between the state and its employees to reduce state costs in 2020-21 and—in most cases—2021-22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4267