MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Administration Provides No Justification for Payments for New Officers to Go to Specified Institutions. The administration provides no evidence or justification to suggest that the incentive payments for new officers at specified facilities are necessary to maintain an inflow of new recruits to those institutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Moreover, when the administration proposes new policy changes through the collective bargaining process, the administration typically provid es little justification for why the policy is designed a specific way.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In 2013, under the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act (PEPRA), the state established a standard that state employees would contribute one-half of the normal cost of pension benefits and adopted a new (lower) pension benefit for new state employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Jul 14, 2025 - 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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - The administration has posted on the California Department of Human Resources’ (CalHR’s) website the agreement (including a new side letter related to the state’s hybrid work policy), a summary of the agreement, and a summary of the administration’s estimates of the proposed agreement’s fiscal effects .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - The Legislature could instead require that pre ‑existing conditions make the new injury worse or render the worker substantially less employable than they would have been without the pre ‑existing condition.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Absent a successor MOU, the state ’s contributions towards Unit 18 health premiums would not change when new premiums are established in January 2029. Delays Restoration of Suspended Employer and Employee Contributions to Prefund OPEB.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - For example, if a department receives a large number of new positions in a new fiscal year, the department will report a high vacancy rate in July and for the several months that it can take to fill the positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Effective July 1, 2025, the payments for 17 and 18 years of service remain but a new pay differential of 4  percent of base salary would be available to employees with 19 years or more of state service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Campus to Replicate Port Environment, Include Training on New Technology. Under this proposal, the new campus would replicate port working environments to provide a safer location for training new hires who may be unfamiliar with the port ’s complex working environment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540