The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals $10 $1,380 CalSTA = California State Transportation Agency; CWDB = California Workforce Development Board; DMV = Department of Motor Vehicles; and GO ‑Biz = Governor ’s Office of Business and Economic Development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

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

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The PERB Board affirmed the ALJ’s overall conclusion that CCHCS violated the Dills Act, but adjusted the ALJ’s factual findings, legal conclusions, and remedial order. The Board held that CCHCS materially changed terms and conditions of employment and determined, among other things, that CCHCS imposed new duties that were not reasonably comprehended within primary care physician’s previous duties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - In response to the budget problem, one of the actions taken as part of the 2020 ‑21 Budget Act was to suspend the CalSTRS board ’s authority to increase the state ’s Defined Benefit Program contribution rate in 2020 ‑21 (in other words, the board ’s vote to increase the state ’s rate did not go into effect).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - If the Legislature wishes to include an across-the-board reduction in the budget for 2024 ‑25, we think an up to 1.5  percent across-the-board reduction in General Fund state operating costs would be more likely to achieve savings than the proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Actuaries spread (or amortize) the effect of these actuarial losses (resulting in higher costs) over a time period specified by CalPERS board policy. Employer Contribution Rates Established by Pension Board.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - While “side letters, ” “MOU addenda, ” and “MOUs ” are all rather amorphous terms, the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) laid out its definition of a side letter in a 2011 PERB decision . In that decision, PERB defines a side letter to mean “an agreement between an employer and union that typically: (1) modifies, clarifies or interprets an existing provision in an MOU; or (2) addresses issues of interest to the parties that are not otherwise covered by the MOU.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - Chapter 839 of 2016 (SB 1167, Mendoza) required the Cal/OSHA Standards Board to issue indoor heat illness prevention regulations by January 1, 2019. The board delayed meeting this deadline and as of this writing is still working on preparing preliminary indoor heat regulations in accordance with SB 1167.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

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

Jun 27, 2025 - While “side letters, ” “MOU addenda, ” and “MOUs ” are all rather amorphous terms, the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) laid out its definition of a side letter in a 2011 PERB decision . In that decision, PERB defines a side letter to mean “an agreement between an employer and union that typically: (1) modifies, clarifies or interprets an existing provision in an MOU; or (2) addresses issues of interest to the parties that are not otherwise covered by the MOU.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The union requested that the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) officially determine that the state and Unit 10 had reached an impasse. In a September 26, 2023 letter , PERB issued its determination that the two parties were indeed at an impasse.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918