New Jersey Statutes Title 52. State Government, Departments and Officers 52 § 11-69

(1) Any person holding office, position or employment in any department, board, commission or agency in the Executive Branch of the State Government, which is in the classified service of the civil service, who shall be appointed to any office, position or employment under the Legislative Services Commission shall, after the adoption of a resolution by the Legislative Services Commission to that effect, hold the office, position or employment to which he is so appointed with the same civil service rights, privileges and protections as he had and enjoyed in said office, position or employment in the Executive Branch of the State Government, notwithstanding that the office, position or employment to which he is so appointed shall itself be in the unclassified service of the civil service; and

(2) Employees performing stenographic or clerical duties may be appointed from the classified service of the civil service of the State in any case in which in the judgment of the commission more competent persons can be so employed and when so appointed such employees shall have civil service status as members of the classified service of the civil service, but no law or rule regulating assignment to duties, hours of work or payment for overtime shall be binding upon the agency as to persons employed by it whether or not they are employed from the classified service of the civil service.