The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - Recommend Linking Additional DPH Positions to Other Decisions and Adding Reporting Requirement. We recommend the Legislature wait to decide on the 15 additional positions at DPH until it has acted on the rest of the administration ’s CNA package of proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The Legislature, however, might consider more targeted initiatives linked with specific goals. For example, it could link any one ‑time workforce funding to helping with a transition to a new child care reimbursement rate system and/or higher minimum program standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2018-19 Budget: Statewide Prison to Employment Initiative

Mar 12, 2018 - It would not, however, require that local boards collect data about whether ex-offenders commit new offenses and subsequently recidivate. Assessment Logic Behind Proposal Makes Sense . . . The main logic of the proposal makes sense: (1)  link in-prison CTE, post-release reentry services, and AJCC job training in order to (2)  provide ex-offenders better and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3781

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

Mar 10, 2022 - Much  of the data about workforce shortages pre ‑date the onset of the COVID ‑19 pandemic, however, some information is available. For example, in 2021, UCSF researchers found that the state currently is experiencing a shortage of registered nurses due to the impacts of the COVID ‑19 pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

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

Feb 15, 2022 - The lack of data standards has for many years caused supply chain inefficiencies. Unfortunately, prior international efforts to harmonize data standards among the various stakeholders have been unsuccessful.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Comparing statewide payroll data from December 2015 with data from December 2023, the statewide vacancy rate increased 62  percent from 13  percent of positions being vacant to 21  percent of positions being vacant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - A compensation study aggregates and analyzes internal and external data so that an employer can compare the compensation structure it offers with that provided by similar employers to similar employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - While di minimis in the broader context of the state budget, this could be a meaningful amount for a particularly small department with an employee on union leave. Second, the administration ’s fiscal estimates do not reflect that the agreement would reduce the leave cap by 192 hours 6 months earlier than the current MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - In 2021, the most recent year for which we have injury data, we estimate that 3,500 workers suffered workplace injuries of this severity. Coincidentally, roughly the same number of workers have filed SIBTF claims annually in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - Furthermore, a recent study linked exposure to wildfire smoke during the 2020 fire season to increased incidence of COVID‑19 infection and fatalities, suggesting smoke exposure can lead to additional health vulnerabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587