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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule D

Division D/29

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/29 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

Section (c): Switchgear and accessories

 

 

RATE A

1. Electrical fitting, including wiring of switchgear panels and/or switchboards (n.e.s.).

 

RATE AA

1. Calibrating and/or adjusting electrical measuring devices, excluding the rectification of functional defects of the measuring devices.

 

RATE D

1. Marking out insulation material for switchgear from drawings and/or schedules under instruction of Rate A to C employee.
2. Wrapping of high-voltage paper bushings (foiled synthetic bonded) by machine.

 

RATE DD

1. Connecting of coil and contact leads to predetermined points and/or pictorial drawings of meters and/or relays and/or instruments.
2. Repetition wiring where the course of the wires is marked by cleats and/or lines and/or saddles and/or wiring channels and/or fixtures and/or pictorial drawings:

After 12 months’ experience: At Rate D rate of pay.

3. Repetition preparation of wiring harnesses on peg boards, or fixtures determining the route of the wire and/or to samples and/or pictorial drawings where no wiring diagram is used under Rate A or AA supervision.

 

RATE DDD

1. Marking of meter and/or instrument dials using stencils.
2. Scaling of meters and/or electrical measuring instruments to pre-printed schedules.

 

RATE E

1. Connecting of meters, relays and instruments to pictorial drawings and/or predetermined points for testing.
2. Repetition testing of meters and/or relays and/or electrical measuring instruments, excluding adjustments.

 

RATE F

1. Winding of secondary coils for current transformers.

 

RATE G

1. Assembling of fuse cartridges not exceeding 660 volts and 1 200 amps.
2. Dishing of meter and/or instrument dials in a pre-set fly press.
3. Mechanical switchgear testing where no current is applied (excluding adjustments).
3. Packing with plastic compound of connections and/or joints and/or conductors, including taping by hand (after inspection of the joints by a Rate A employee).
5. Primary winding of current transformers, including insulating.
6. Repetition marking of fuse caps by machine.
7. Repetition testing and inspecting of fuse cartridges by means of an ohmmeter and/or fixed gauges.
8. Taping by hand of current transformer cores.