Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - As we describe below and list in Figure  1, the Legislature has ratified agreements between the administration and 19 of the state ’s 21 bargaining units. The rank-and-file and excluded employees associated with these 19 bargaining units represent more than 95  percent of the state workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025. The purpose of this analysis is to serve as a historical record of these legislatively ratified labor agreements with the 19 bargaining units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We note that overtime costs in 2020-21 increased 12  percent compared with 2019-20; however, we cannot assess what share of this increase was due to PLP 2020, operational effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, or other factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 25, 2021 - The agreement would require the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to perform a job analysis, create and administer an exam, and develop a WCJ II certification list no later than the end of calendar year 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Under recently ratified agreements with 19 bargaining units (all but Units 8 and 10, which now have agreements pending before the Legislature), the state will not make contributions towards prefunding retiree health benefits in 2025-26 or 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In 2020-21, the Legislature used Control Section 3.90 to reduce each item of appropriation as appropriate to reflect reductions in employee compensation by a specified dollar amount listed in the control section.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters) August 19, 2025 MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters) The administration submitted to the Legislature a proposed labor agreement between the state and Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters) on July 25, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - (Appendix  2 also includes a list of proposed revenue ‑related  solutions.) In this section, we describe the overall condition of the General Fund budget after accounting for the Governor ’s budget proposals and solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662