39. The employees, including the senior management officers, of the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux whose principal or secondary tasks are likely to come under the responsibility of the institute shall, subject to the provisions of a collective agreement that are applicable to them, become employees of the institute to the extent that an order in council providing for their transfer is made before 8 October 1999.
Such employees shall occupy the positions and exercise the functions assigned to them by the institute, subject to the provisions of a collective agreement that are applicable to them.