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

Jul 14, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - Figure 1 Summary of PLP 2025 Under Ratified Agreements Unit Monthly Hours of Leave Accrued Duration (Months) Monthly Hours of Leave Accrued Duration (Months) 5.0 12 a The specific pay reduction and corresponding number of hours of leave accrued will depend on the pay increases provided to Unit 5 following the annual survey required by Section 19827 of the Government Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under the agreement, PLP 2025 would (1)  reduce employee pay by 3  percent (effectively holding employee take-home pay flat after accounting for the GSI) and (2)  provide employees five hours of PLP 2025 leave each month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - A 56-hour duty week would significantly increase the state ’s annual costs and a DROP would create long-term fiscal risk for the state. 56-Hour Duty Week Reducing Duty Week to 56 Hours Would Increase Annual State General Fund Costs by Hundreds of Millions of Dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - These long periods of work have been difficult for firefighters as well as for their families. By switching from a 72-hour duty week to a 66-hour duty week, the typical schedule for a firefighter would include roughly one fewer 24-hour shift per month than is currently the case.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - This approach is used because it can be difficult to estimate in a given year (1)  the number of hours of overtime that will be worked and (2)  the cost of each of those hours as the cost depends on which employees work overtime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 27, 2025 - In addition to the five hours of PLP 2025 leave credit received each month, the agreement would provide employees eight hours of PLP 2025 leave on June 1, 2027 on a one-time basis. Suspension of Employer and Employee Contributions to Prefund OPEB.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Employees represented by Unit 10 who regularly work specified night shifts receive an hourly pay differential. The proposed agreement would increase these night shift differentials. Specifically, the hourly differentials would increase (1)  from 40 cents to $1.50 per hour for employees who work four or more hours
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - Effective the first day of the pay period following ratification by both parties, but expiring June 30, 2025, psychologists would be compensated at their base salary hourly rate hour-for-hour for additional caseload responsibilities assigned to them beyond the normal psychologist caseload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The current MOU allows Unit 5 members to participate in a state civil service examination during the employee ’s work hours if the examination is scheduled during the employee ’s work hours. Under the MOU, employees must give their supervisor 48-hours ’ notice of the examination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920