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

Sep 9, 2025 - DOF then submits the addendum to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, which has up to 30 days to determine if it disagrees with DOF ’s determination that an agreement does or does not require legislative approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - As such, the extent to which issues remain justifying a further reduction in the duty week would be unknown. Moreover, we do not know how much reducing the duty week by ten hours would increase state costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - In 2021, the most recent year for which we have injury data, we estimate that 3,500 workers suffered workplace injuries of this severity. Coincidentally, roughly the same number of workers have filed SIBTF claims annually in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - In the case of dentists, the vacancy rate was 10  percent, which is much lower than the statewide average 21  percent vacancy rate and the 31  percent vacancy rate across Unit 16 positions. While the study indicated that state dentists are retiring at higher rates than statewide or other Unit 16 positions, the elevated retirement rate does not seem to be affecting the state ’s ability to fill dentist positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Jun 27, 2025 - DOF then submits the addendum to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC), which has up to 30 days to determine if it disagrees with DOF’s determination that an agreement does or does not requires legislative approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - This approach is used because it can be difficult to estimate in a given year (1)  the number of hours of overtime that will be worked and (2)  the cost of each of those hours as the cost depends on which employees work overtime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - For example, see the 2010 agreement with Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 (Local 10000), which increased employee contributions from 5 percent of pay to 8 percent of pay and reduced pension benefits for future hires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Under current law, the state ’s costs for highway patrol salary are determined by factors over which the Legislature has no control: decisions made by five local governments. The extent to which these decisions are based on changes in the cost of living or other factors is not readily known to the Legislature or the administration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - For any time worked in excess of 72 hours in a workweek, employees receive additional pay for unplanned overtime, which is also paid at 1.5 times an employee ’s hourly rate. Current MOU Set Stage to Reduce Duty Week to 66 Hours.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - The CalPERS Board has full rate setting authority to establish required employer contributions, which means that the final rates adopted by the CalPERS Board for 2024 ‑25 would be required under law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887