MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP indicated that DROPs present multiple challenges for actuaries to accurately estimate the value of the benefit. CAAP indicated that calculating projections of expected benefit payments is significantly complicated by DROP entry timing, final retirement date, participation rates, overall career length, and employee behaviors (discussed in greater detail below).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jul 14, 2025 - 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 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - This indicates that there is less seniority among Unit 6 members than a decade ago. However, share of Unit 6 members at the top step has grown since 2020, suggesting that there is not a drain of seniority among Unit 6 members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Projections at the time indicated that the benefit would be fully funded by 2046. Under the plan, the assets of the trust fund cannot be used to pay for the benefit until 2046 or whenever the benefit is fully funded, whichever comes first.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Projections at the time indicated that the benefit would be fully funded by 2046. Under the plan, the assets of the trust fund cannot be used to pay for the benefit until 2046 or whenever the benefit is fully funded, whichever comes first.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The administration ’s fiscal estimates indicate that about 235 rank-and-file employees and about 58 excluded employees receive this payment and that the provision would increase annual state costs by $699,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The administration gave the union until March 21, 2024 to indicate that it would like to return to the table. In its March 21, 2024 response, CAPS indicated “it’s been four months since we rejected the State’s LBFO and nothing tells us why the State has a sudden interest in returning to negotiations.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - As we indicated in 2008 and 2015 and the State Auditor indicated in 2002 , this law was ineffective as most chronically vacant positions were never eliminated and departments found ways to preserve their position authority.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - The administration indicates that 1,583 FTE employees work in one of these classifications and estimates that 76  percent of these employees are at the top step and eligible to receive the pay increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18

Aug 12, 2022 - The administration indicates that some components of the training needs to be hands-on in order to be effective. CAPT informs us that there is no hands-an component in the training given to staff at CDCR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4617