Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As such, the case inventory was growing by about  500  cases per year, with about 7,000 pending cases as of 2015. Beginning in 2015, however, the number of incoming claims began to vastly outnumber the state ’s processing capacity, with the state processing only one ‑fifth of incoming claims each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 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 (refer to our 2015 analysis, The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees for more information).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 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 (refer to our 2015 analysis, The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees for more information).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 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 (refer to our 2015 analysis, The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees for more information).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 27, 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 (refer to our 2015 analysis, The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees for more information).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Prior to 2015-16, the state made no regular contributions to prefund retiree health benefits. Beginning in 2015-16, the state began implementing through the collective bargaining process a statewide change in its retiree health benefit that (1)  required the state and employees each to contribute one-half of the normal cost of retiree health benefits and (2)  reduced the value of the benefit for future hires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Comparing payroll data from December 2015 with data from December 2023, the number of established positions grew 11.5  percent while the number of vacant positions grew 52  percent. As a result, the vacancy rate in December 2015 was 13  percent and the vacancy rate in December 2023 was 21  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Comparing statewide payroll data from December 2015 with data from December 2023, the statewide vacancy rate increased 62  percent from 13  percent of positions being vacant to 21  percent of positions being vacant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Since the rejected 2014 MOU , the state and Unit 10 have ratified three subsequent MOUs: a one-year MOU that was established through mediation and expired July 2015, a three-year MOU that expired July 2018, and a two-year MOU that expired July 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918