§ 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.