N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1279-l: Right to share employees

§ 1279-l. Right to share employees. 1. It is hereby found and declared

to be necessary and proper to authorize the authority, its subsidiaries,

affiliates, and subsidiaries of affiliates, powers to effectuate and

ensure such entities continued financial viability, which is at issue

given sizable operating deficits and significant capital needs. Allowing

wholesale internal management reforms will create savings, combat

entrenched bureaucracies, create streamlined, uniform, and efficient

services, ensure public accountability and reestablish public trust. In

order to facilitate these necessary goals it is both reasonable and a

legitimate public purpose to provide systematic authority for the

sharing of employees within and between the respective entities.

2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the

authority, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and subsidiaries of affiliates

shall each have the right to share employees within and between such

entities and to assign such employees to perform any operation or

function subject only to a determination that they are substantially

similar to any operation or function currently performed. Substantially

similar operation or function shall be determined exclusively by the

authority.

3. Nothing set forth in this subdivision shall be construed to impede,

infringe or diminish the rights and benefits that accrue to employees

and employers through collective bargaining agreements, or impact or

change an employee's membership in a bargaining unit.