Section 1857. Officers and employees; transfer, promotion and seniority

1.
  Officers  and  employees  of  state  departments  and  agencies  may  be
  transferred to the authority and officers and employees of the authority
  may be transferred to state departments and agencies without examination
  and without loss of any civil service status or rights. No such transfer
  may,  however, be made except with the approval of the head of the state
  department or division involved and the director of the budget  and  the
  chairman  of  the  authority  and  in  compliance  with  the  rules  and
  regulations of the state civil service commission.
    2. Promotions from positions in  state  departments  and  agencies  to
  positions   in   the  authority,  and  vice  versa,  may  be  made  from
  interdepartmental promotion lists resulting from promotion  examinations
  in  which both employees of the authority and employees of the state are
  eligible to participate.
    3. In computing  seniority  for  purposes  of  promotion  or  for  the
  purposes  of  suspension  or demotion upon the abolition of positions in
  the service of the authority or in the service of the state, in the case
  of an employee of the authority a period  of  prior  employment  in  the
  service  of the state shall be counted in the same manner as though such
  period of employment had been in the service of the  authority,  and  in
  the case of an employee of the state a period of prior employment in the
  service  of  the authority shall be counted in the same manner as though
  such period of employment had been in the service of the state. For  the
  purposes  of  the  establishment  and  certification of preferred lists,
  employees  suspended  from  the  authority   shall   be   eligible   for
  reinstatement  in the service of the state, and employees suspended from
  the service of the state shall be  eligible  for  reinstatement  in  the
  service  of  the  authority,  in the same manner as though the authority
  were a department of the state.