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

Jul 14, 2025 - The number of authorized psychiatrist positions in state government has increased faster over time than other classifications represented by Unit 16. Since 2015, the number of authorized psychiatrist positions increased 70  percent, compared with a 29  percent increase across the bargaining unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Sep 9, 2025 - Reduces Number of Shifts of Mandatory Overtime. The agreement would reduce the number of allowable mandatory overtime shifts by one shift per month from four shifts per month to three shifts per month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - This has resulted in a decline in the number of Unit 6 positions. For example, in March  2025, there were 24,498 FTE Unit 6 members —10  percent lower than the number of FTE Unit 6 members ten years ago in April 2015 (26,835).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Coincidentally, roughly the same number of workers have filed SIBTF claims annually in recent years. Each SIBTF claim is connected to a severe workplace injury that occurred at some point in the past .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - At the time, the administration anticipated that, once fully implemented in 2028-29, reducing the Unit 8 duty week from 72 hours to 66 hours will increase annual state costs by $770 million ($756 million General Fund) and increase the number of permanent positions by 2,457 FTE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jun 27, 2025 - (The higher vacancy rate likely is not due to a growth in the number of authorized positions as the number of authorized Unit 12 positions grew by about 1.5  percent over the past five years.) Combined, these factors indicate that there may be recruitment and retention challenges for Unit 12.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - To address past budget problems or anticipated budget problems, the state has used a number of strategies to reduce employee compensation in a way that provides immediate budgetary relief to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - In other cases, it is defined to include a broader set of health professions such as social workers, physicians, and psychiatrists (in ad dition to the caregiving occupations just mentioned). For the purposes of this post, we define the care economy according to the latter approach, encompassing a broad range of health and human services professions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572