Class Consolidation Efforts: On Aug. 11, 2025, the State Personnel Board (SPB) approved the long-awaited Generalist Consolidation, which reduces 67 classes to 8 classes. The Generalist Consolidation will be effective Jan. 1, 2026, and it impacts roughly 30,000 Bargaining Unit 1 or related excluded positions at virtually every department. The Generalist Class Consolidation is the single largest state Human Resources streamlining initiative to be undertaken in California in decades. In 2025, CalHR also successfully completed several other major class modernization projects, including the Research Scientist Consolidation, Caltrans Maintenance Series updates, Health Facilities Evaluator series overhaul, Firefighter Paramedic consolidation, and the Peace Officer citizenship revisions. Together, these projects modernized another 36,904 jobs in civil service beyond the 30,000-job impact of the Generalist Consolidation.