The workmen's compensation appeal board created under section 9 of chapter 1a of Act No. 357 of the Public Acts of 1947, being section 408.9 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is transferred by a type I transfer to the department of labor, and notwithstanding any other provision of this act to the contrary, retains its authority to employ such personnel as provided by law.
MCL 16.478