489 - Temporary assignment or permanent transfer of personnel.

§ 489. Temporary  assignment  or  permanent transfer of personnel. The  director, in consultation with the head of the state agency involved and  with the approval of the director of the budget,  may  provide  for  the  temporary  or permanent assignment or transfer of officers and employees  of state agencies to the office. Employees permanently transferred shall  be transferred without further examination or  qualification  and  shall  retain  their  respective  civil  service classification and status. Any  employee who,  at  the  time  of  such  transfer,  has  a  temporary  or  provisional  appointment  shall be transferred subject to the same right  of removal, examination or termination as though such transfer  had  not  been  made.  No existing right or benefit, including retirement benefits  or remedy of any character, shall  be  lost,  impaired  or  affected  by  reason  of this article. The director of the budget shall be responsible  for timely notification of all such assignments  and  transfers  to  the  chairman  of  the  senate  finance  committee  and  the  chairman of the  assembly ways and means committee. Transfer  of  employees  pursuant  to  this  article shall be governed solely and exclusively by the provisions  hereof notwithstanding other provisions of the law.