Section 2350-X. Transfer of officers and employees; civil service

1. The
  appointment and promotion of all non-exempt/non-management  confidential
  employees  of  the  agency  shall  be  made in accordance with the civil
  service  law  and  the  rules  of  the  Suffolk  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  in  the  service
  area,  may,  at  the request of the agency, be transferred to the agency
  and shall be eligible for such transfer and appointment, without further
  examination, to applicable offices, positions and employment  under  the
  agency.  Any  such  officers  or  employees so transferred to the agency
  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 agency, 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 agency.
    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 agency.
  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.