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

Sep 9, 2025 - We discuss these challenges in our 2024 analysis of the most recently ratified Unit 10 MOU. Pay Increases Established by 2024 MOU Not Funded in 2025-26 Budget. The Unit 10 MOU that the Legislature ratified in 2024 included pay increases in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 and Unit 10 rank-and-file workers and (2)  between unit 10 rank-and-file workers and their supervisors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

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

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The Unit 10 agreement is a side letter related to the administration ’s telework policy and does not include provisions to reduce employee compensation. As a proposed MOU, the Unit 16 agreement is subject to our review under Section 19829.5.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - LAO Comments Undoing the 2009 ‑10 Payroll Deferral Created a Reserve-Like Benefit to the State. As we discussed in 2019 , when the state undid the 2009‑10 payroll deferral, it created a reserve-like benefit to the state in the sense that the payroll deferral could be redone at some future date to help address a future budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

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

Jul 14, 2025 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) July 14, 2025 MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) On July 10, 2025, our office received from the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) a proposed successor memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and Bargaining Unit 16.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Specifically, Section 19829.5 of the Government Code specifies that CalHR “shall provide a memorandum of understanding pursuant to Section 3517.5 to the Legislative Analyst who shall have 10 calendar days from the date the tentative agreement is received to issue a fiscal analysis to the Legislature. […] The memorandum of understanding shall not be subject to legislative
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Specifically, the administration assumes that 60  percent of employees receive the reimbursement in 2024-25, 10  percent of employees receive the reimbursement in 2025-26, and 10  percent of employees receive the reimbursement in 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Of the state ’s 21 bargaining units, 14 have agreements that will be in effect through 2025-26. These bargaining units include the nine units represented by Local 1000 (Units 1 [administrative, financial, and staff services], 3 [professional educators and librarians], 4 [office and allied], 11 [engineering and scientific technicians], 14 [printing and allied trades], 15 [allied
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047