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

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 Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Moreover, when the administration proposes new policy changes through the collective bargaining process, the administration typically provid es little justification for why the policy is designed a specific way.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under current state policy, state departments that allow state employees to work a hybrid schedule (meaning a portion of the work week in office and a portion of the work week from a remote location) must have a telework policy with a default minimum of two in-person days per work week.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Although furloughs and PLP are established through different means (imposed versus bargained), the two policies functionally are the same. As such, we generally refer to the two policies as furloughs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Identify What Policy Will Be Used to Achieve Any Imposed Reductions. If the Legislature chooses to allow the administration to impose reductions on employees, we recommend that the Legislature explicitly identify what policy the administration can apply to affected bargaining units —for example, the control section language in 2020-21 that specified furloughs as an allowable policy to achieve savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Sep 9, 2025 - In 2015-16, the state adopted a policy to establish through the collective bargaining process a prefunding arrangement whereby the state and current employees each pay one-half of the normal cost of the benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058