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 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 Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - These pay increases did not go into effect because funding for the increases was not included in Item 9800 of the 2025-26 budget. The proposed agreement would reestablish the pay increases for employees at the top step of their salary range and increase by 0.5  percentage points, to a total 3.5  percent, the pay increase received by employees not at the top step.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - In other words, the agreement would lead to increased state annual costs beginning in 2025-26. Greater Increased Annual Costs Beginning in 2027-28. After PLP 2025 expires, the state would begin paying the full effect of the agreed upon pay increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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 - Escalating Employer Costs Employer Tax for SIBTF Has Increased Dramatically … SIBTF claim payments and associated medical and legal payments have increased rapidly in recent years, resulting in annual increases in the employer ‑paid taxes that replenish the SIBTF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Specifically, the top steps would increase 4.5  percent and the bottom steps would increase 2  percent. This would have the effect of a 4.5  percent pay increase for any employee at the top step of the salary range and a 2  percent pay increase for all other employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Change Scheduled Top Step Pay Increase to General Salary Increase (GSI). Under the current MOU, Unit 12 members at the top step of their salary range are scheduled to receive a 4  percent pay increase on July 1, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Delay Scheduled Pay Increases. There are four major types of pay increases: General Salary Increases (pay increases that apply to everyone in a bargaining unit), Special Salary Adjustments (pay increases that apply to select members of a bargaining unit, typically applying to specific classifications), top step
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047