N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2799-pp: Assistance to the authority; employees of the authority

§ 2799-pp. Assistance to the authority; employees of the authority.

1. With the consent of any public corporation, the authority may use

agents, employees and facilities thereof, paying to such public

corporation its agreed proportion of the compensation or costs.

2. Officers and employees of city agencies may be transferred to the

authority and officers and employees of the authority may be transferred

to appropriate city agencies without examination and without loss of any

civil service or retirement status or rights. Any officer or employee of

the authority who heretofore acquired or shall hereafter acquire such

position status by transfer and who at the time of such transfer was a

member of the New York city employees' retirement system shall continue

to be a member of such system as long as he or she continues in such

service, and shall continue to have all the rights, privileges and

obligations of membership in such system. Employment by the authority

shall constitute city-service for the purposes of chapter one of title

thirteen of the administrative code of the city of New York. Transfers

shall be in accordance with section seventy of the civil service law and

the rules of the civil service commission of the city. No such transfer

shall be made except with the approval of the head of the agency

involved and the chairperson of the authority and in compliance with

applicable collective bargaining agreements and the rules and

regulations of the civil service commission of the city.

3. A transferred employee shall remain in the same collective

bargaining unit as was the case prior to his or her transfer, consistent

with the provisions of article fourteen of the civil service law and the

collective bargaining law of the city.

4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the rights of

employees pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement.

5. Employees newly appointed by the authority to a same or similar

position or title as those represented by public employee organizations

subject to the New York city collective bargaining law shall be placed

in the same collective bargaining unit as such same or similar position

or title and shall be represented by the duly certified employee

organization representing that unit.

6. The commissioner of labor relations of the city shall be the

authority's representative for purposes of the New York city collective

bargaining law.

7. Employees of the authority shall be subject to chapter sixty-eight

of the New York city charter, as amended from time to time.