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

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 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

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Influx of SIBTF Claims Based on Chronic Conditions Straining State Capacity for Review Incoming Claims Have Increased Much Faster Than State ’s Processing Capacity. As  discussed earlier, the state routinely received 700 to 1,000  cases annually until 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Because the state had not set aside funds to prefund retiree health benefits for much of the benefit ’s existence, a large and growing unfunded liability exists. As of June 30, 2023 , the state’s unfunded liability associated with this benefit for all state employees is estimated to be $85.2 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Sep 9, 2025 - For many years, there has been significant disagreement between CAPS-UAW and the state as to how much state scientists should be paid. The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) 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/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Because the state had not set aside funds to prefund retiree health benefits for much of the benefit ’s existence, a large and growing unfunded liability exists. In the most recent actuarial valuation (as of June 30, 2023) the state’s unfunded liability associated with this benefit for all state employees is estimated to be $85.2 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Another estimate of likely fraud in the state ’s program (based on findings in the administration ’s strike team report) suggests that state UI fraud during the pandemic could be much smaller —just $100  million in fraud out of $35  billion in benefits paid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Moreover, we do not know how much reducing the duty week by ten hours would increase state costs. However, based on the cost to reduce it by six hours (from 72 hours to 66 hours), it seems reasonable to assume that such an action would increase annual costs by at least several hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Because the state had not set aside funds to prefund retiree health benefits for much of the benefit ’s existence, a large and growing unfunded liability exists. In the most recent actuarial valuation (as of June 30, 2023) the state’s unfunded liability associated with this benefit for all state employees is estimated to be $85.2 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060