§212-10  Personnel.  Permanent employeescurrently not in civil service and who are employed by the State to operate andmaintain the foreign trade zone in the department of business, economicdevelopment, and tourism shall be converted to permanent civil service statuswithin the meaning of chapter 76 without the necessity of examination and shallbe accorded all the rights, benefits, and privileges attributable thereto. Such rights and privileges shall include seniority, prior service credit,vacation and sick leave credits, and other benefits and privileges accordedemployees with civil service status.  Employees so converted shall not suffer areduction in their pay rate. [L 1971, c 195, §1; am L 1987, c 336, §7; am L1990, c 293, §8; am L 2000, c 253, §150]