N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2657: Employees, civil service

§ 2657. Employees, civil service. 1. The appointment and promotion of

all non-exempt/non-management confidential employees of the authority

shall be made in accordance with the civil service law and the rules of

the Schenectady county civil service commission.

2. In accordance with the provisions of section seventy of the civil

service law, any officer or employee of a municipality, school district

or special district in the service area, may, at the request of the

authority, be transferred to the authority and shall be eligible for

such transfer and appointment, without further examination, to

applicable offices, positions and employment under the authority. Any

such officers or employees so transferred to the authority pursuant to

this section, who are members of or benefit under any existing pension

or retirement fund or system, shall continue to have all rights,

privileges, obligations and status with respect to such fund or system

as are now prescribed by law, but during the period of their employment

by the authority, all contributions to such funds or systems to be paid

by the employer on account of such officers or employees shall be paid

by the authority.

3. A transferred employee shall remain in the same collective

bargaining unit as was the case prior to his or her transfer. Successor

employees to the positions held by such transferred employees shall,

consistent with the provisions of article fourteen of the civil service

law, be included in the same unit as their predecessors. Employees

serving in positions in newly created titles shall be assigned to the

same collective bargaining unit as they would have been assigned to such

unit were such titles created prior to the establishment of the

authority. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed (a) to

diminish the rights of employees pursuant to a collective bargaining

agreement or (b) to affect existing law with respect to an application

to the public employment relations board seeking a designation by the

board that certain persons are managerial or confidential.