MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Specifically, the hourly differentials would increase (1)  from 40 cents to $1.50 per hour for employees who work four or more hours of their regularly scheduled work between 6:00 pm and 12:00 am (midnight) and (2)  from 50 cents to $1.50 per hour for employees who work four or more hours of their regularly scheduled work between 12:00 am (midnight) and 6:00 am.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As shown in Figure  6 , the 2024 ‑25 tax is expected to generate $850  million, nearly double the amount necessary to replenish the fund in the prior year. …But Increase Only Reflects Processed Claims, Understating Full Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - In February 2006, after finding that the state had failed to provide a constitutional level of medical care to people in prison, a federal court (in the case now referred to as Plata v. Newsom) appointed a Receiver to take control over the direct management of the state ’s prison medical care delivery system from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - If the fund averaged an annual return of 5  percent over the next 20 years, the $206.8  million would more than double to nearly $550  million. Suspending the state ’s contribution to prefund OPEB reduces costs today but contributes to a significant and growing unfunded liability and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by 2048.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 27, 2025 - While CalHR foun d that the state ’s compensation for Unit 12 members leads the market statewide across all types of employers, it found that the state ’s compensation package is significantly weaker when compared with region-specific local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Although ETP grants may be one tool to upskill workers, the $90  million proposal in the package would almost double grant funding made by ETP in recent years (the panel distributed a total of $97  million in grants in 2020 ‑21).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - Private entities tend to underspend on R &D without government intervention. This is because the costs and risks of R &D can be high, while the benefits tend to be diffuse. In the climate change area, benefits can be especially diffuse, with regional, statewide, and even global effects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Public Safety)

Sep 7, 2023 - While we cannot say with certainty how these economic conditions will unfold, we have advise d the Legislature to remain cautious as key economic indicators —such as the treasury bond yield curve —have signaled an economic and revenue slowdown could be forthcoming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4802

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

Jun 25, 2021 - According to the May 27, 2021 Joint Case Management Conference Statement from the federal court case, Marciano Plata, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, et al (known as Plata v. Newsom), while 71 percent of the incarcerated population in California state prisons has received at least on dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, only 49 percent of correctional staff have had at least one dose of a vaccine.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - The degree to which climate change will impact particulate emissions in the future is subject to some uncertainty, but researchers have estimated that particulate matter in fire‑prone areas could roughly double by the end of the century.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575