N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2676-e: Transfer of officers and employees

§ 2676-e. Transfer of officers and employees. 1. In accordance with

the provisions of section seventy of the civil service law, any officer

or employee of the county, may, at the request of the authority and with

the consent of the county executive, 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 pension or retirement fund or system under the laws of the state,

shall continue to have all rights, privileges, obligations and status

with respect to such fund or system as are 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.

2. A transferred employee shall remain in the same collective

bargaining unit as was the case prior to such employee's 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 such employee's

predecessors. Employees serving in positions in newly created titles

shall be assigned to the same collective bargaining unit as such

employees 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.