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

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

Feb 15, 2022 - The Legislature may wish to ask the administration whether these software tools could be useful in more targeted, special  circumstances. Reject Anti ‑Fraud Consulting Contracts, Require EDD to Outline Benefits and Consider Trade ‑Offs First.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Jul 14, 2025 - We have found that establishing a benefit that fundamentally has no bearing on an employee ’s salary to be funded as a percentage of pay is overly complicated and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by the target date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - In other cases, it is defined to include a broader set of health professions such as social workers, physicians, and psychiatrists (in ad dition to the caregiving occupations just mentioned). For the purposes of this post, we define the care economy according to the latter approach, encompassing a broad range of health and human services professions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - For example, a target could be established as a dollar amount or a percentage of pay; and the target could be one state-wide target or be bargaining unit specific. Identify What Policy Will Be Used to Achieve Any Imposed Reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Jun 27, 2025 - We have found that establishing a benefit that fundamentally has no bearing on an employee ’s salary to be funded as a percentage of pay is overly complicated and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by the target date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - These efforts have ranged from programmatic reviews targeting specific departments to broad statewide policies that affect all state departments. We highlight the effort s undertaken in the past decade below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - These programs are designed to be responsive to state, regional, and local workforce issues and to target occupations with anticipated job growth, including occupations related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538