Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Jun 27, 2025 - The Unit 12 lead in total compensation ranged from 3  percent above market in the case of highway maintenance workers to 32  percent above market in the case of stockers and order fillers. Wages Less Competitive Among Local Governments and Certain Regions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The Legislature ratified the current Unit 8 MOU through Chapter 1001 of 2024 (AB 181, Committee on Budget). The ratified MOU is scheduled to remain in effect through June 30, 2026. Our analysis of the ratified agreement can be found here .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jul 14, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Following a recommendation from our office, Chapter 39 of 2023 (AB 130, Committee on Budget) amended Section 19826 of the Government Code to establish a regularly occurring cycle so that a new compensation study for each bargaining unit would be released every two years, regardless of the status of its MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - While the receiver characterized a 20  percent vacancy rate as “huge ” in 2006, the Unit 16 vacancy rate (as of August 31, 2023) is about 32  percent. This is substantially higher than the statewide average vacancy rate that currently is about 20  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - One such program is the DRE certification that requires the completion of a 72-hour classroom course and 32-hour field certification course. The administration ’s fiscal estimates indicate that 550 rank-and-file and 30 excluded employees have a DRE certification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - (The 32 percent of state engineers not included in the compensation study include engineering jobs such as mechanical engineers and architects.) The compensation study found that state civil (representing 52 percent of the bargaining unit) and environmental (representing 11 percent of the bargaining unit) engineers are compensated above market.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - This means that the average retiring correctional officer was hired at the age of 32 years. In the early and mid-2000s, the state hired a large number of new correctional officers. This created a cohort of correctional officers of a similar age.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - Chapter 322 of 2021 (AB 73, Rivas) includes farmworkers in the definition of essential workers as it pertains to health emergencies, including during wildfire smoke events. Under this bill, farmworkers, as essential workers, must receive PPE from the state stockpile in a health emergency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587