CalFacts 2024 [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2024 - CalFacts presents a wide range of facts and trends about the state's economy, finances, and programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4942

Labor Agreements: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, AND 21

Jun 25, 2020 - Administratively Easy. Compared with the layoff process, furloughs require relatively little administrative work. Immediate Savings. Because furloughs are relatively easy to administer, the budget can assume savings from furloughs starting immediately at the beginning of the fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4257

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

Jun 27, 2025 - Furloughs have some clear advantages including that they are administratively easy to implement; they offer immediate and predictable levels of savings; and they do not require a reduction in workforce, allowing the state to immediately “staff up ” after the budget problem passes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Furloughs have some clear advantages, including that they are administratively easy to implement; they offer immediate and predictable levels of savings; and they do not require a reduction in workforce, allowing the state to immediately “staff up ” after the budget problem passes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2020-21 Budget: Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Sep 9, 2020 - Although the administration estimates that the agreement results in net savings to the state, it estimates that the changes in this formula will increase the state ’s annual costs by $13.5  million ($8.8  million from the General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4267

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Furloughs have some clear advantages including that they are administratively easy to implement; they offer immediate and predictable levels of savings; and they do not require a reduction in workforce, allowing the state to immediately “staff up ” after the budget problem passes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - …Likely Resulting in Net Costs to State Beginning in 2025-26. If overtime payments in 2025-26 reflected overtime payments in 2024, the 2.5  percent GSI would increase state expenditures for overtime by more than $7  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s CalPERS Borrowing Proposal

May 16, 2017 - This analysis could also consider alternatives for prepayments in terms of their net benefit. For example, would a prepayment for state retiree health unfunded liabilities have a greater net benefit in the long run?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3673

MOU Fiscal Analysis for Bargaining Units 5, 8, 12, 16, 18, and 19 [Publication Details]

Jul 15, 2010 - MOU Fiscal Analysis for Bargaining Units 5, 8, 12, 16, 18, and 19 [Publication Details] MOU Fiscal Analysis for Bargaining Units 5, 8, 12, 16, 18, and 19 Format: PDF Description: In our required fiscal analysis of six proposed collective bargaining agreements, we find that the memoranda of understanding (MOUs), if adopted, would produce state savings in 2010-11, little net budgetary impact in 2011-12, and some increasing state costs for one or more years thereafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2334

The 2014-15 Budget: State Worker Salary, Health Benefit, and Pension Costs [Publication Details]

Mar 4, 2014 - The increased costs reflect pay increases for most state workers, rising health and pension benefit costs, and a net increase in the number of state workers. In this report, we provide an overview of the state workforce, current collective bargaining agreements, and state employee compensation costs in 2014-15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2958