MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We raised concerns in 2018 that CalHR provided no supporting evidence to justify Unit 6 pay increases despite it being required by state law (see our May 2018 analysis ). We raised concerns in 2019 that CalHR withheld (and continues to withhold) a compensation study it completed in 2018 (see our June 2019 analysis ) and proceeded to not produce
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - Two years later, CalHR indicates that the union and administration still have not resolved their differences on the compensation study and do not plan on submitting to the Legislature the 2018 study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - LAO Assessment 2018 Compensation Study Disagree That 2018 Compensation Study Is Confidential Under CPRA. We disagree with the administration ’s assertion that the 2018 compensation study and all information related to it are confidential under the CPRA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18 (Psychiatric Technicians)

Jan 9, 2020 - Although DDS recently has operated other large facilities —like Fairview Developmental Center —that employed psychiatric technicians who had to work mandatory overtime hours, the department has been in the process of closing these facilities and will be moving the final residents to community-based settings in January 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4134

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - In the event that employees have unused PLP 2025 leave in their leave banks upon separation, the agreement specifies that the employees ’ unused leave would be cashed out upon separation at their final salary level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 2025 - These higher leave balances, in turn, lead to higher costs to the state when employees separate from state service and the state must pay the employee for any unused leave at their final salary level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Jun 27, 2025 - These higher leave balances, in turn, lead to higher costs to the state when employees separate from state service and the state must pay the employee for any unused leave at their final salary level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Although pension benefits earned by state employees vary significantly, each pension formula is similar in that the pension rec eived by a state employee in retirement depends on (1)  their final salary level, (2)  their age upon retirement, and (3)  the number of years of service they have earned before retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The fact that the proposed agreement took more than two years to finalize suggests that it is the product of a very difficult and prolonged negotiation. The parties signed the first pages of the tentative agreement in 2020, with some relatively minor provisions of the agreement related to pay being signed during the summer of 2022 (including adjusting the pay range for specified
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - In its final report of COVID-19 among staff on June 15, 2021, CDCR reported 17,002 confirmed COVID-19 cases (representing about 30 percent of CDCR positions in 2020‑21) and 28 deaths among CDCR staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446