SPMM Advisory Memorandum #00-04 outlined the rights of Roswell Park Cancer Institute employees whose names were on State promotion eligible lists at the time Roswell Park Cancer Institute was established as a public benefit corporation. That memo stated that Institute employees receiving promotions from State lists would first (or simultaneously) have to be reinstated to State service and that Institute employees were not eligible to take State promotion examinations.

Governor Pataki recently signed legislation permitting permanent employees of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute to compete in State promotion examinations. The Department of Civil Service can only determine promotion eligibility for Institute employees based on their classified service and employment histories up to the date that Roswell Park Cancer Institute became a public benefit corporation (1/1/99). However, because Roswell Park Cancer Institute personnel records are not part of NYSTEP, we cannot verify applicants' current employment status at the Institute.

Consequently, departments and agencies considering employing Roswell Park Cancer Institute employees from promotion eligible lists should use the same employment verification procedures that would be used in hiring a candidate from an open-competitive list. You may reach Roswell Park Cancer Institute's human resources office at (716) 845-1555.

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