Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 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/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP indicated that calculating projections of expected benefit payments is significantly complicated by DROP entry timing, final retirement date, participation rates, overall career length, and employee behaviors (discussed in greater detail below).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

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

Mar 10, 2022 - The length of time for workforce development activities varies, ranging from training that can be provided in a few weeks to education that requires years of study. Several State Health and Labor Entities Administer Workforce Development Programs, Including Some Targeted at Care Economy Professions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Sep 7, 2021 - We discussed the importance of compensation studies at length in our June 25, 2021 analysis of the 20 labor agreements that were ratified by the Legislature earlier this summer. In the case of Bargaining Unit 8, Section 19827.3 of the Government Code requires that, when developing the compensation study for Bargaining Unit 8, CalHR take into consideration the compensation provided by jurisdictions employing 75 or more full-time firefighters who work in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4451

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

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Figure 1 Pay Increases Provided by Current Law — $244.6 LAO Comments and Recommendations Term Length Not Consistent With Standing LAO Recommendation. The proposed agreement would be in effect for three fiscal years and would maintain the current statute to provide automatic pay increases beyond these three years even if the agreement were to expire and the parties could not agree to a successor MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - In 2018, the Legislature approved and the Governor signed Chapter  174 ( AB 2550 , Weber), adding Section 2644 of the Penal Code. This law seeks to protect females in prison from sexual assault, abuse, and other improper contact with male correctional officers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - These efforts added to the already high workload  at  EDD. Under Longstanding EDD Practices, Workers Must Pass Multiple Identity Tests. When an unemployed worker submits a claim for UI payments, EDD confirms the worker ’s identifying information with the federal Social Security Administration and the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575