Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - To effectuate those savings, the budget package provided legislative ratification of any agreement that achieved budgetary savings and was entered into before the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year. In total, the administration and 19 of the state’s bargaining units were able to enter into agreements by midnight on June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The final 2025-26 budget package approved by the Legislature maintained the May Revision level of savings in employee compensation and set an expectation for the administration and the state’s 21 bargaining units to meet and confer in good faith in order to achieve those savings through the collective bargaining process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Mar 10, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package The 2022‑23 Budget Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package Summary. This budget post provides (1)  an overview of the Governor ’s budget proposal to provide $1.7  billion (mostly General Fund) across three years for several workforce development augmentations
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - As such, the Legislature will want to keep collective bargaining developments in mind as it finalizes the 2025-26 budget package. One option would be for the Legislature to withhold action on any collective bargaining agreement until all expected agreements have been submitted to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - As such, if the state were to incorporate a DROP as part of its compensation package to Uni t 8 members, the state would bear the risks associated with the program (for example, if actual investment returns fell short of the interest rate applied to funds in a DROP account).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - While CalHR foun d that the state ’s compensation for Unit 12 members leads the market statewide across all types of employers, it found that the state ’s compensation package is significantly weaker when compared with region-specific local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Labor and Employment Issues

Oct 5, 2020 - The 2020 ‑21 budget package includes two labor items related to Chapter  296 of 2019 (AB  5, Gonzalez), a new law that limits what types of work businesses can hire independent contractors to perform.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4274

Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - Third Relief Package Includes Forgivable Loans That May Help Businesses Cover Paid Leave. On March  25, congressional leaders and the White House reached agreement on a third COVID-19 relief package, which includes “paycheck protection ” loans for businesses to cover their existing payroll, healthcare costs, interest payments, rent, and utilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Background

Feb 2, 2016 - The final 2014-15 budget package adopted the Governor ’s proposal, with some minor modifications. Funding Plan a Major State Accomplishment. Prior to state action, CalSTRS faced a huge unfunded liability with no plan in place for funding teacher pensions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3332

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

Jul 14, 2025 - These trade-offs include effects on recruitment and growth in long-term liabilities: Recruitment: Furloughs can make the state a less attractive employer to possible new hires by making the state ’s compensation package less competitive compared with compensation offered by other employers and by demonstrating a lack of predictability in the state ’s terms of employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064