N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 3246: Employees of the corporation

§ 3246. Employees of the corporation. 1. In order to reduce its

operating expenses the corporation shall, to the extent practicable,

utilize existing employees of the state, pursuant to section thirty-two

hundred forty-eight of this title, hiring its own employees only if the

necessary functions of the corporation cannot be performed without the

hiring of such employees. Employee compensation shall be paid only from

appropriations made to the corporation by law.

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

service law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, the

state and the corporation shall have the power to provide for the

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

the state as shall enable the corporation to fulfill its corporate

purposes. Employees of the state so transferred shall be appointed,

without further examination, to the corporation in the same or

equivalent classification and position they hold at the time of the

transfer.

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 such

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

unit were such titles created prior to the establishment of the

corporation. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed to

diminish (a) 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.

4. The corporation and its employees shall be subject to article

fourteen of the civil service law and for all purposes the corporation

shall be deemed a "public employer".