Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997 (Act No. 75 of 1997) Sectoral Determinations Sectoral Determination 4 : Clothing and Knitting Sector, South Africa 1. Definitions 1.1 Definitions of the occupations, capacities and duties of Employees in the Clothing Division and Knitting Division (a) Definitions of the occupations, capacities and duties of employees in the Clothing Division only

 

"Category A Employee"

means an employee engaged in any one or more of the following duties or capacities in the clothing division:

 

"assistant storeperson"

means an employee other than a labourer who, under the supervision of a storeperson, assists in issuing or receiving goods;

 

"automatic hydraulic hat presser"

means an employee operating an automatic hydraulic hat press used solely for shaping hats;

 

"belt person"

means an employee other than a learner mechanic, engaged in fixing machine belts, oiling bearings, filling oil cans and similar work and assisting the establishment’s mechanic;

 

"boiler attendant"

means an employee under the supervision of a foreperson or factory manager, who is responsible for maintaining the water level and steam pressure of a boiler in an establishment, and who may stoke, rake, slice and draw the fire in such boiler;

 

"cardboard box maker"

means an employee engaged in operating a cardboard box making machine;

 

"cleaner"

means an employee engaged in cutting or trimming off loose ends of cotton left in the garments by previous operators;

 

"coat-turner"

means an employee engaged in turning coat facings out after machining;

 

"despatch packer"

means an employee who, under the supervision of a foreperson or clerical employee, is wholly or mainly engaged in making up orders and in packing goods for transport, including the sealing of cellophane bags by hand or machine, or delivering in connection with the despatch department of an establishment;

 

"general worker"

means an employee who is engaged in one or more of the following occupations:

(m)        washing or polishing of floors and staircases by machine or by hand.

 

"hat sprayer"

means an employee engaged in spray painting hats,

 

"ironer"

means an employee engaged in the ironing of fusible interlinings with hand iron positioning and spot fusing of fusible interlinings with special machine;

 

"layer by hand"

means an employee engaged in laying up materials by hand preparatory to cutting;

 

"layer by machine"

means an employee engaged in laying materials by machine preparatory to culling;

 

"marker"

means an employee engaged in marking the position of pockets, buttons and/or button holes;

 

"operator"

means an employee who operates a—

 

"packer"

means an employee engaged in packing garments into boxes or other suitable wrappings or tying them into bundles prior to their being sent to the dispatch department;

 

"patent turner"

means an employee engaged in turning out or over the edges of collars, facings, bands, cuffs, pockets or flaps whether by hand or machine;

 

"pinner"

means an employee engaged in pinning unfinished or finished garments;

 

"plain sewer"

means an employee engaged solely in performing by hand one or more of the following operations: tacking permanent turn-ups; tacking waistband linings; sewing on hooks and eyes, tickets or press studs; fastening catch in tops of trousers; sewing on buttons; making and sewing on hangers; felling crutch linings in trousers, felling bottoms and waist-band linings, and various odds and ends of sewing; felling necks of vests; fastening edge stays and odds and ends of sewing; felling bottoms of linings or seams of same already basted into position; felling bindings; fastening facings inside already basted in position;

 

"sorter"

means an employee engaged in sorting out garments or parts of garments for the various operations;

 

"stamper"

means an employee engaged in stamping the size or identity work numbers on garments or parts of garments, or on any article connected with packaging or despatching of garments;

 

"winder"

means an employee engaged in the winding or unwinding of lace, embroidery, braids, ribbons, bindings and elastic;

 

"under-presser"

means an employee other than a presser employed in pressing processes.

 

"Category B Employee"

means an employee engaged in one or more but not limited to the following duties or capacities in the clothing division:

 

"baster"

means an employee engaged in hand sewing in setting a coat or parts of a coat into position preparatory to other operations or underbasting, i.e. hand sewing of linings of coats into position preparatory to sewing the edge seams;

 

"clicker"

means an employee who cuts out parts of garments from dyes using a mechanical or hydraulic press;

 

"conveyor feeder"

means an employee responsible for feeding prepared parts of garments on to a conveyor for further operations and who may be assisted by one or more sorters;

 

"cutter"

means an employee who cuts out all articles of wearing apparel, linings, trimmings or interlinings by any method;

 

"examiner"

means an employee who examines finished garments for quality;

 

"finisher by hand"

means an employee who performs one or more of the following operations by hand:—

 

"fitter-up"

means an employee who takes the outside of garments together with the cut out linings (called trimmings) and adjusts the outside and insides together accurately so that parts may go forward to the machine to be put together correctly;

 

"folder"

means an employee engaged in the folding of garments by machine or by hand and buttoning up of garments;

 

"lay copier"

means an employee engaged in placing of numbered patterns on a lay to conform with a numbered photograph, diagram or plan;

 

"machinist"

means an employee who performs by sewing machine any operation in the making of clothing;

 

"presser"

means an employee employed in pressing the finished garment by hand or machine;

 

"seam welder"

means an employee who joins seams by any method other than by a thread-sewing machine;

 

"setter of automatic pleating machines"

means an employee engaged in setting of pleats on automatic pleating machines;

 

"shaper"

means an employee engaged in shaping the lapels and collars of coats preparatory to under basting;

 

"sloper"

means an employee engaged in marking or trimming the shape of the necks in the shirt section, preparatory to other operations.