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

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Non-Salary-Driven Benefits. Unlike salary-driven benefits, salary plays no role in determining the value of non-salary-driven benefits earned by employees. The most common type of benefits in this category, like those described below, are insurance plans.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Most Unit 9 employees work for departments that are funded from non-General Fund sources. Furloughs Long History of Using Furloughs to Address State Budget Problems. Furloughs, referred to as Personal Leave Program (PLP) when established through the state ’s collective bargaining process, are the most common tool adopted by the state to reduce state employee compensation costs in times of budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 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/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Studies designed by the b argaining table typically rely on non-representative samples of employers (for example, only comparing the state ’s compensation with local government employers in high-cost coastal communities) and do not accurately compare total compensation across employers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Similar to the rejected 2022 Tentative Agreement , the proposed agreement establishes a six-month transition period beginning upon ratification of the agreement to change the disability insurance program available to Unit 10 members from Non-Industrial Disability Insurance or Enhanced Non-Industrial Disability Insurance to SDI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Highway Patrol is excluded from these Proposition 2 SPPs because Highway Patrol is funded entirely by non-General Fund state funds. Highway Patrol Pension Employer Contribution Rates Have Grown More Than for Other Peace Officers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - According to UC, the workforce hubs would be selected through a competitive process based on their ability to leverage outside funding, collaborate with regional non ‑UC workforce entities, and address specific regional climate ‑related workforce needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - These efforts added to the already high workload  at  EDD. Under Longstanding EDD Practices, Workers Must Pass Multiple Identity Tests. When an unemployed worker submits a claim for UI payments, EDD confirms the worker ’s identifying information with the federal Social Security Administration and the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542