The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The first is payment towards the “normal cost, ” which is the amount of money that actuaries determine (based on actuarial assumptions like expected investment returns on assets) must be contributed to prefund the benefit earned by employees today.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Under current state policy, state departments that allow state employees to work a hybrid schedule (meaning a portion of the work week in office and a portion of the work week from a remote location) must have a telework policy with a default minimum of two in-person days per work week.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - A pension system matures as the share of people receiving benefits (retirees and their beneficiaries) grows relative to the share of active members who are working and contributing to the system. As a pension system matures, its cash flow changes from a positive cash flow (more money coming into the system than is being paid out to beneficiaries)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

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

Jun 27, 2025 - A future Legislature and Governor could face pressure to use money from the trust fund as soon as it becomes available, e specially to address a budget problem, should one exist in 2046. To the extent that money is drawn from the fund before the benefit is fully funded, the likelihood of the benefit ever becoming fully funded will further diminish.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The normal cost is the amount of money that actuaries determine must be set aside for the benefit employees earn today so that the contribution and any future investment returns on that contribution are sufficient to pay for the benefit after the employee retires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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

Jul 14, 2025 - (Under the policy, the state continues to make pay-as-you-go payments from the General Fund for benefits received by retirees.) The money contributed by the state and employees to prefund the benefit is put in a trust fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - In order to receive the bonus, the MOU requires that the insti tution be 50 or more miles away from the cadet ’s current home address and that the cadet is required to relocate from their current home address to work at the institution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Suspending employee contributions increases workers ’ take-home pay for the duration of the suspension. Suspending employer and employee contributions creates a short-term benefit to both the employer and employee; however, it will result in less money being invested in the trust fund and higher unfunded liabilities for the state in the long run.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000)

Sep 7, 2023 - Employees include nursing staff who work in state prisons, state hospitals, and veterans ’ homes. Unit 20: Medical and Social Services. Employees include various medical and social services specialists who work in state prisons, veteran ’s homes, developmental centers, and state hospitals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Specifically, while the current agreement requires the state to provide the union with each employees ’ home address, the proposed agreement would require the state to provide the union bargaining each unit member ’s name; classification; department; work location; work, home, and personal cellular telephone numbers; and work and personal e-mail addresses on file with the employer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918