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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Extension of the Consolidated Main Collective Agreement to Non-parties (for the period 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2024)

Part 2 4. Technical Schedules

Schedule G

Section (a): General

Purchase

Applicable to certain classes of work and/or operations throughout the Industries, including the Electrical Engineering Industry, General Engineering, Structural Metal Work and Manufacturing Engineering (n.e.s):

(1) For the purposes of this section—

‘controlled machines’ means machines controlled by numerical, digital, electronic and similar control systems, and where the operation and/or attending of such machines complies with the definition of any of the machining operations contained in this Schedule, such operations shall be held to apply throughout all divisions of this Agreement (n.e.s);

‘Electrical Engineering Industry’ means the industry concerned with—

(a)

the manufacture and/or assembly from component parts of electrical equipment in the Republic of South Africa, namely generators, motors, convertors, switch and control gear (including relays, contactors, electrical instruments and equipment associated therewith), electrical lighting, heating, cooking, refrigeration and cooling equipment, transformers, furnace equipment, signalling equipment, radio or electronic equipment, including monitors, and other equipment utilising the principles used in the operation of radio and electronic equipment, the latter equipment to include, but not to be limited to television, incandescent lamps, electric cables and domestic electrical appliances, and includes the manufacture of component parts of the aforementioned equipment;

(b)	the installation, maintenance and repair of the equipment referred to in paragraph (a) above in the Provinces of the Transvaal and Natal (excluding any portion of that area falling within the self-governing territory of KwaZulu), but does not include the Electrical Contracting Industry;

‘Electrical Contracting Industry’ means the Electrical Contracting Industry as defined in clause 3 of this Agreement;

‘general engineering’ means the maintenance, fabrication, erection or assembly, construction, alteration, replacement or repair of any machine, vehicle (other than a motor vehicle) or article consisting mainly of metal (other than precious metal) or parts or components thereof and structural metalwork, including the finishing of metal goods, and the building and/or alteration and/or repair of boats and/or ships, including the scraping, chipping and/or scaling and/or painting of the hulls of boats and/or ships and general wood work undertaken in connection with ship repairs, but does not include work defined as ‘manufacturing engineering’ in clause 25 of Part I of this Agreement;

‘structural metalwork’ means the fabrication, erection or assembly, construction, alteration, replacement or repair of metal structures (including metal structures of boats and/or ships) and/or pressure vessels and/or components made in whole or in part of metal plate and/or metal sections (n.e.s).

(2)	No person, other than a journeyman or an apprentice or a trainee, shall be employed on work classified at Rate A in this Agreement.

(3)

For the purposes of this Agreement, ‘trainee’ means an employee under training in terms of the Skills Development Act on work classified at Rate A or Category 5 in Schedule G or under Group Z in Schedule F of Part II in this Agreement or an employee under training in terms of the provisions of a contract issued or recognised by the Council.

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Schedule G are prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this Agreement

(i) Learners

(ii) Juveniles

(iii) Cranes and hoists

(iv) Vehicle driving-external transport...

(v) Locomotive driving

(vi) Stationary engines

(vii) Pupil engineers and/or approved students

(viii) Watchman"s work

(ix) Electrolytic Finishing

(x) Vitreous enamelling

(xi) Machine engraving