MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - During most of this time, the state has paid for these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis after an employee is retired and receiving the benefit. Since the 1990s, the costs for this benefit have been among the fastes t growing costs in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - During most of this time, the state has paid for these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis after an employee is retired and receiving the benefit. Since the 1990s, the costs for this benefit have been among the fastes t growing costs in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 2025 - During most of this time, the state has paid for these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis from the General Fund after an employee is retired and receiving the benefit. Since the 1990s, the costs for this benefit have been among the fastest growing costs in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The actual cost will depend on how many employees cash out leave and how much leave they choose to cash out. Provisions From Past Agreements Not Included No Reopener if Other Units Get Higher Pay Increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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

Jun 27, 2025 - During most of this time, the state has paid for these benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis after an employee is retired and receiving the benefit. Since the 1990s, the costs for this benefit have been among the fastes t growing costs in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - The current MOU specifies that CASE can request unpaid or paid leave of absence for union officers or representatives. Paid union leave may be granted at the discretion of a department director or their designee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

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

Sep 9, 2025 - For most of the more than six decades that the state has offered its employees retiree health benefits, the state did not prefund the benefit but instead paid the cost on a pay-as-you-go basis after employees retired.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - For many years, there has been significant disagreement between CAPS and the state as to how much state scientists should be paid. The disagreement primarily stems from union-raised pay equity concerns between two sets of employees: (1)  between Unit 9 and Unit 10 rank-and-file workers and (2)  between unit 10 rank-and-file workers and their supervisors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - Typically, MOUs do not contain significant policy changes without the details of how those changes would be implemented. Moreover, to our recollection, we have not reviewed an MOU with such a significant policy change occurring after the agreement expires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - How Would the Administration Determine What Terms to Impose on Bargaining Units That Do Not Come to an Agreement? Would the Administration Approach Bargaining With Bargaining Units With Documented Lags in Compensation or Recruitment and Retention Challenges Differently Than Other Units?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047