Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

The 2022-23 Budget: State Payments on the Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 15, 2022 - Prior to the pandemic, at the start of 2020, the state ’s UI  trust fund held $3.3  billion in reserves. Despite these reserves, the state ’s UI trust fund became insolvent during the summer of 2020, a few months following the start of the pandemic and associated job losses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4543

Repaying the State’s Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

May 26, 2021 - Prior to the pandemic, at the start of 2020, the state ’s UI trust fund held $3.3  billion in reserves. Despite these reserves, the state ’s UI trust fund became insolvent during the summer of 2020, a few months following the start of the pandemic and associated job losses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4442

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - Incubators assist entrepreneurs and start ‑ups with developing their businesses. Incubators can provide a variety of services, ranging from management training, facility space, and start ‑up financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Unit 18 members work under the terms and conditions established under an MOU that expired at the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. Pursuant to the Dills Act, the terms and conditions of an expired MOU generally remain in effect until a successor MOU is ratified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - Divorcing the deadline of the total compensation report from the bargaining cycle is a good start, but we think that it can be further amended to improve legislative oversight. We discuss these recommended changes below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Given the administration would not begin to identify reductions until after the start of the fiscal year in which reductions are assumed to occur, achieving the full amount of savings seems even more unlikely.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - One option to begin addressing this problem could be to direct workforce agencies to start collectin g and reporting data on utilization of workforce programs among workers in specific industries and occupations with high exposure to heat, drought, inclement weather, or other manifestations of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - By making these requests in mid-June, the administration provided the Legislature fewer than two weeks to conduct its review of these significant requests prior to the start of the new fiscal year. This amount of time was inadequate to enable the Legislature to hear these requests as part of the budget subcommittee process or evaluate them as thoroughly as would be appropriate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621