Section 2657. Employees, civil service

1. The appointment and promotion of
  all non-exempt/non-management confidential employees  of  the  authority
  shall  be made in accordance with the civil service law and the rules of
  the Schenectady 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, school district
  or special district in the service area, may,  at  the  request  of  the
  authority,  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 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 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.
    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
  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.