"factory clerk"
means an employee who is engaged in one or more of the following duties or capacities in a garment knitting establishment:
| (a) |
Calculating piece-work or bonus payments from production schedules; |
| (b) |
checking attendance records or recording particulars of employees at work or absent from work; preparing wage cards or envelopes for subsequent use by another employee; |
| (c) |
checking or recording for production control; |
| (d) |
copying invoices or other documents by machine or hand; |
| (e) |
issuing machine parts, tools, oil and other equipment from workshop store and/or recording same; |
| (f) |
issuing material, lining, canvas, trimming, buttons, cotton and zips to the different departments of an establishment and/or recording same; |
| (g) |
issuing trimming, lining, cotton and zips to employees of an establishment from a substore and/or recording same; |
| (h) |
receiving into stock, goods, material, trimming, tools and other equipment and checking goods received against specifications of goods ordered such as quantity, size and quality; |
| (i) |
recording particulars of materials or general stores consumed or to be consumed or keeping stock records; |
| (j) |
recording particulars of waste; |
Provided that a calculator may be used in carrying out one or more of the above duties;
"fitter and/or trimmer"
means an employee engaged in fitting and/or trimming a part or parts of garments after they have been marked in by the marker-in, according to the pattern provided by the employer, and cut to shape by the cutter-out;
"football jersey cutter"
means an employee who is engaged in marking-in and/or cutting material for football jerseys with any power-driven cutting machine, knife or shears;
"foreman"
means an employee who is in charge of the employees including supervisors, in a factory and who exercises control over such employees and who is charged with the responsibility for engaging or terminating the employment of such employees, and who is responsible for the efficient performance by them of their duties;
"general assistant"
means an employee engaged wholly or mainly in one or more of the following occupations:
| (a) |
Cleaning vehicles or machines; |
| (b) |
loading or unloading goods; |
| (c) |
carrying goods or stacking; |
| (d) |
packing goods for despatch or delivery, nailing up packing cases or sewing up bales; |
| (e) |
delivering letters, messages or goods no foot or by means of a foot or hand propelled vehicle; |
| (f) |
making or maintaining fires or removing refuse or ashes; |
| (g) |
mixing rubber solutions for rubberised garments; |
| (h) |
fixing machine belts; |
| (i) |
lubricating machines; |
"general worker"
means an employee engaged on one or more of the following operations:
| (a) |
Applying adhesive solutions on seams, edges and other parts of clothing and rolling them over with a roller; |
| (b) |
attaching of ornamental trimmings or fasteners by hand or press; |
| (d) |
fastening permanent turn-ups; |
| (e) |
fastening catch in top of trousers and various odds and ends of sewing by hand; |
| (f) |
fastening edge-stays; |
| (g) |
fastening by hand facings inside already based into position; |
| (h) |
feeding into and taking out of automatic roller or form presses; |
| (j) |
felling crutch linings in trousers; |
| (k) |
hemming bottoms by hand; |
| (l) |
folding of garments and/or inserting folded garments into containers; |
| (m) |
ironing open seams during the course of production and ironing loose collars; |
| (n) |
making and sewing on hangers by hand; |
| (o) |
making covered buttons and/or buckles; |
| (p) |
making of the positions for pockets, buttons, loops, fasteners, darts, turn-ups, buttonholes, hems and the like, preparatory to further operations; |
| (q) |
marking and/or trimming of the shapes of the necks of shirts and underwear; |
| (r) |
marking off and/or cutting by hand of any trimming (not being piecegoods) to a given length or shape; |
| (s) |
marking by template and cutting to shape of materials previously cut out; |
| (t) |
nipping by machine or hand; |
| (u) |
pinning of finished garments; |
| (v) |
putting on bridles by hand; |
| (w) |
pulling out bastings; |
| (x) |
sewing buttons by hand; |
| (z) |
sorting out of garments or parts of garments as required for various operations- |
| (aa) |
stamping of sizes, identity or mark numbers or other details on garments and/or the removal of threads; |
| (ac) |
the removal of spots, marks or foreign matter from materials or garments and/or the removal of threads; |
| (ad) |
touching up of completed garments with a hand iron after they have been pressed by a presser in the infants" end children"s section; |
| (ae) |
turning bonnet brims and pressing same; |
| (af) |
turning out or over of the edges of collar facings, belts, cuffs, tabs, pockets and/or flaps by hand or machine, and the turning of garments or parts thereof inside out; |
| (ag) |
turning sleeves or trousers inside out; |
| (ai) |
welding plastic clothing; |
| (aj) |
carrying or stacking completed garments which may be in containers or parts of uncompleted garments, the total mass of which shall not be more than 9 kg; |
| (ak) |
packing goods for dispatch or delivery, excluding the making up of orders; |
| (al) |
delivering of messages within the establishment; |
| (am) |
sorting leather for the manufacture of gloves; |
| (an) |
counting components and cut parts used in the manufacture of gloves; |
| (ao) |
rounding out the fingers of gloves that have been turned; |
| (ap) |
turning the cuffs of completed gloves; |
| (aq) |
attaching press-studs; |
| (ar) |
pneumatic wire stitching; |
| (as) |
preparation of leather for the manufacture of gloves, including the pasting thereof; |
"glover turner"
means an employee who grades patterns from any material to various sizes from a master pattern and according to requirements or directions given to him;
"Grade A employee"
means an employee engaged in one or more of the following duties or capacities in a garment knitting establishment:
| (a) |
"handyman" means an employee who makes minor repairs or effects renovations to buildings, fixtures and fittings and who covers ironing and pressing machines or tables with any type of materials; |
| (b) |
"machine knitter" means an employee operating one or a set of knitting machines and capable of identifying faults, changing bad needles and making minor adjustments to such items as yarn tensions when necessary; |
| (c) |
"knitting machine mechanic" means an employee who is engaged in making repairs or adjustments to machinery or equipment used directly in the manufacture of products of an establishment; |
"Grade B employee"
means an employee engaged in one or more of the following duties or capacities in a garment knitting establishment:
(a) assistant to handyman;
| (b) |
"chaser" means an employee who searches and locates garments or orders in an establishment and who may organise orders through the establishment; |
| (c) |
"cook" means an employee engaged in preparing meals and cooking; |
| (d) |
"design room assistant" means an employee who assists employees in the design room in one or more of the following duties or capacities; |
| (i) |
Fetching or taking patterns, garments, parts of garments, cotton, cloth or trimmings to and from the different departments in the establishment; |
| (ii) |
cutting out patterns after they have been marked out by pattern makers or pattern graders; |
| (iii) |
stamping identification details such as size, style and season on cut out patterns; |
| (e) |
"knitter"s assistant" means an employee who brings yarn to and from the machines, removes fabric from the machines, unloads and reloads yarn onto the machine and can stop and start a machine, all under the general supervision of a knitter; |
| (f) |
"knitting machine hand operator" means an employee who operates a hand operated knitting machine; |
| (g) |
"knitting shaper" means an employee who cuts semi-fashioned garments (body or sleeve blanks) individually or collectively; |
| (h) |
"laboratory assistant" means an employee who prepares samples and who make initial and routine tests and record the results thereof; |
| (i) |
"linker" means an employee engaged in operating a linking machine; |
| (j) |
"mender" means an employee who examines knitted garments, other than berets, for defects and rectifies such defects; |
| (k) |
"NES (Knitting)" means an employee employed at a Garment Knitting establishment, in a capacity not elsewhere specified in this part of the Agreement; |
"Grade C employee"
means an employee engaged in one or more of the following duties or capacities in a garment knitting establishment:
| (a) |
"bobbin-winder" means an employee engaged in winding bobbins; |
| (b) |
draw-thread operator; |
| (e) |
"label printer" means an employee engaged in printing or writing labels; |
| (f) |
"line feeder" means an employee engaged in feeding and/or collecting work, garments, parts of garments, cotton, trimmings, cartons, boxes and labels on the line or in a department of an establishment; |
| (h) |
toe-closing by machine; |
| (i) |
"turner" means an employee engaged in turning garments or parts of garments; |
| (j) |
"winder" means an employee engaged in operating a yarn winding machine; |
| (k) |
zip machine operator; |
| (l) |
"fringe threader" means an employee threading and knotting strands of thread into ends of scarves and trimming the fringe after threading; |
"grader"
means an employee who grades patterns from any material to various sizes from a master pattern and according to requirements or directions given to him;
"hourly wage"
means the total weekly wage divided by 42;
"instructor"
means an employee who is responsible for training employees in any garment knitting establishment or who in any manner whatsoever assists an employer in or about a factory in carrying out training programmes to improve the productivity of his employees;
National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (107 of 1998)
