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

Feb 15, 2022 - Short ‑Term vs. Long ‑Term Strategies. The  current supply chain disruptions are the result of both short ‑term issues, such as greater consumer demand, as well as long ‑term issues, such as the capacity and resilience of the goods movement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The agreement specifies when the time may be used. In the case of DSH employees, the time must be scheduled in coordination with supervisors. In the case of CCHCS, the time must be scheduled at the end of the workday.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Jun 27, 2025 - The agreement would establish PLP 2025 for full-time and part-time employees represented by Unit 12 in 2025-26 and 2026-27. During PLP 2025, Unit 12 members ’ pay would be reduced by 3  percent in exchange for five hours of PLP 2025 leave credit each month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - As of March  2025, rank-and-file and excluded employees associated with Unit 9 totaled more than 17,600 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees, accounting for about 7  percent of the state ’s total workforce (about 256,000 FTE).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Unless employees are able to take more time off —which is particularly challenging in 24-hour facilities, like prisons, where a certain number of employees must be at their post at any one time —furloughs result in larger unused leave balances.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - During this time, state staff were processing (and beginning benefit payments for) about half of these claims. As such, the case inventory was growing by about  500  cases per year, with about 7,000 pending cases as of 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The state has made one-time SPPs to each state pension plan at various times in the past. Such one-time SPPs to the Highway Patrol plan have included the 2017-18 plan to borrow funds to make SPPs to all pension plans and SPPs required by the current MOU .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 14, 2024 - For any time worked in excess of 72 hours in a workweek, employees receive additional pay for unplanned overtime, which is also paid at 1.5 times an employee ’s hourly rate. Current MOU Set Stage to Reduce Duty Week to 66 Hours.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4919

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The state would be prohibited from using an employee ’s log on/off time, electronic access card entry/exit times, or other “online status ” in any electronic application as the sole source of attendance reporting or as the sole reason of discipline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Under the pay differential, employees who telework more than 50 percent of their time receive $50 per month and employees who telework more than 0 percent but less than 50 percent of their time received $25 per month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888