N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1857: Officers and employees; transfer, promotion and seniority

§ 1857. Officers and employees; transfer, promotion and seniority. 1.

Officers and employees of state departments and agencies may be

transferred to the authority and officers and employees of the authority

may be transferred to state departments and agencies without examination

and without loss of any civil service status or rights. No such transfer

may, however, be made except with the approval of the head of the state

department or division involved and the director of the budget and the

chairman of the authority and in compliance with the rules and

regulations of the state civil service commission.

2. Promotions from positions in state departments and agencies to

positions in the authority, and vice versa, may be made from

interdepartmental promotion lists resulting from promotion examinations

in which both employees of the authority and employees of the state are

eligible to participate.

3. In computing seniority for purposes of promotion or for the

purposes of suspension or demotion upon the abolition of positions in

the service of the authority or in the service of the state, in the case

of an employee of the authority a period of prior employment in the

service of the state shall be counted in the same manner as though such

period of employment had been in the service of the authority, and in

the case of an employee of the state a period of prior employment in the

service of the authority shall be counted in the same manner as though

such period of employment had been in the service of the state. For the

purposes of the establishment and certification of preferred lists,

employees suspended from the authority shall be eligible for

reinstatement in the service of the state, and employees suspended from

the service of the state shall be eligible for reinstatement in the

service of the authority, in the same manner as though the authority

were a department of the state.