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

Feb 15, 2022 - In light of this scrutiny, the Internal Revenue Service recently called off its planned adoption of ID.me for tax filing. (After the publication of this report, the IRS reinstated its use of ID.me, but with added safeguards.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

The 2020-21 Budget: Improving the State's Unpaid Wage Claim Process

Feb 19, 2020 - In light of the major employment laws enacted in recent decades, the Legislature could reevaluate its goals for the wage claim process. In so doing, the Legislature could set benchmark standards for worker outcomes, besides the statutory time line under current law, that align with its contemporary goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4165

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Options to Refocus SIBTF on Its Original Purpose In light of the program ’s recent expansion and rising costs, we suggest the Legislature look to refocus SIBTF to more closely align with its original purpose: providing a supplemental workers ’ compensation benefit to workers with severe work ‑limiting disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientists)

Aug 28, 2018 - In light of the very limited amount of time that we have to review this 229-page agreement and accompanying fiscal estimates provided by the administration, this analysis is based on our current understanding and interpretation of the provisions of the agreement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3881

The 2017-18 Budget: Increased Staffing for Labor Standards Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - The DLSE should report on what steps are being taken to continue to reduce unfilled positions and, in light of these steps, how many of the requested positions could reasonably be expected to be filled and over what time frame.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3602

The 2016-17 Budget: Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)

Mar 1, 2016 - It could, for example, fund PERB (1) at the amount requested by the administration for 2016-17 but with an understanding that this funding level would be revisited next year in light of reported progress in reducing backlogs or (2) at a different amount than requested by the administration in line with its independent assessment of the board ’s resource needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/report/3377

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - In light of the 2020 ‑21 budget action, which holds the state ’s contribution rate flat in the current year, the administration ’s proposed additional state General Fund payment of $173  million to CalSTRS in 2021 ‑22 makes sense as a way to offset the lower state rate for one year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - These amounts are shown in light blue in Figure  4 . Small Operating Surpluses Under Governor ’s Plan and Estimates. In the previous section we used the term surplus to describe the amount available to allocate in the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - In light of this uncertainty, legislative action would be required in order to build reserves more quickly to ensure solvency in the long term, including some combination of state UI tax increases and/or benefit reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503/2

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Aug 28, 2018 - In light of the very limited amount of time that we have to review this 195-page agreement and accompanying fiscal estimates provided by the administration, this analysis is based on our current understanding and interpretation of the provisions of the agreement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3880