Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - In 2020, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board adopted emergency regulations to require employers to provide N95 masks to outdoor employees for voluntary use if the Air Quality Index (AQI) for particulate matter (PM) 2.5 is greater than 150.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The union requested that the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) officially determine that the state and Unit 10 had reached an impasse. In a September 26, 2023 letter , PERB issued its determination that the two parties were indeed at an impasse.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These might include purchasing additional air filters and masks to protect workers from smoke, incurring higher utility costs from an increased need for air conditioning, changing traditional hours of operation, providing additional training to help prevent and identify heat ‑related illnesses, or modifying facilities to accommodate periodic flooding (such as by moving sensitive equipment to higher floors).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - If an employee were to be called back to work during their regular shift hours on a day that the employee is officially on leave credit (sick leave, vacation/annual leave, or compensated time off), the proposed agreement would create a new requirement that the employee be credited with a minimum of four hours work time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The threat to the health and safety of both people living in prisons and working in prisons resulted in the administration implementing a number of personnel policies related to staff testing for the virus, mask wearing, and vaccination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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

Jun 25, 2021 - An October 2020 report from the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) indicated that although CDCR distributed cloth masks to inmates and correctional staff and mandated via policy memorandum that masks be worn, there was at the time significant levels of noncompliance among staff and inmates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - In addition to the official compensation study compiled by CalHR, two other compensation studies (one conducted by the California Department of Justice and the other conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles) provided to us by the union that represents attorneys (California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, and Hearing Officers in State Employment [CASE])
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206

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

Sep 9, 2020 - During the period each year officially referred to as “summer preparedness ” (commonly known as fire season) —a period that varies year to year and region by region —a couple hundred employees (roughly 3  percent of Unit 8) in specialty classifications receive a 5  percent pay increase under the MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4267