N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2546: Employees of the corporation

§ 2546. Employees of the corporation. 1. Notwithstanding any

inconsistent provisions of this act, the appointment and promotion of

all employees of and for the corporation shall be made in accordance

with the provisions of the civil service law and shall be subject to the

jurisdiction of the city civil service commission and the compensation

for such employees shall be fixed by the corporation.

2. The city and the corporation shall have the power to provide for

the transfer to the corporation of agents, employees and facilities of

the city to enable the corporation to fulfill its corporate purposes.

Employees of the city to be transferred to the corporation pursuant to

this title shall be automatically appointed and transferred to the

corporation in the same or equivalent classification and position they

hold at the time of the transfer. The corporation, its officers and

employees, shall be subject to article fourteen of the civil service law

and for all purposes the corporation shall be deemed "public employer",

provided, however, that chapter fifty-four of the New York city charter

and administrative code of the city of New York and executive orders

number fifty-two, dated September twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred

sixty-seven, as amended, promulgated by the mayor, shall apply in all

respects to the corporation, its officers and employees except that

paragraph seven and paragraph eight of said executive order shall not be

applicable to the corporation, its officers and employees. Employees who

are members or beneficiaries of any existing pension or retirement

system shall continue to have such rights, privileges, obligations or

status with respect to such system as are prescribed by law on the date

this title takes effect, and all such employees who have been appointed

to positions in city service in accordance with the provisions of the

civil service law under the rules of the city civil service commission

shall have the same status with respect thereto in the service of the

corporation as they had in city service.