Mich. Comp. Laws § 421.60a

Sec. 60a. The commission shall exercise and perform all the powers and duties in relation to the protection of the deaf and deafened, as are presently held and exercised by the department of labor under the provisions of Act No. 72 of the Public Acts of 1937, being sections 408.201 to 408.205 of the Compiled Laws of 1948.