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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 M

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

VI. Miscellaneous operations

 

RATE A

1. *Marking out.

*‘Marking out’ means the marking out with measuring instruments of the centres and working lines of articles and/or material.

2. *Setting out.

*‘Setting out’ means the setting out of work on the floor or on the bench to sketches and/or drawings and/or dimensions.

 

RATE B

1. Riveting and/or caulking pressure vessels.
2. Supervisory work (n.e.s.).

 

RATE C

1. Heat treatment (supervisory work).
2. Galvanising (supervisory work).

 

RATE D

1. Riveting and/or caulking (n.e.s.).

 

RATE E

1. Assembling, from component parts, of single-stage, centrifugal or helical rotor pumps up to 250 mm discharge diameter, requiring no fitting or adjustment, but including deburring.
2. Assembling, from component parts, of multi-stage pumps with no hydraulic discs, requiring no fitting or adjustment, but including deburring.

 

RATE F

1. Supervising employees employed on classes of work scheduled below Rate F, when so appointed.

 

RATE G

1. Dressing and/or deburring by hand and/or by grinding and/or portable power tools.
2. Hot dip coating and/or galvanising under supervision of a Rate A to D employee.
3. Metal coating by dipping.
4. Operating tube and/or rod and/or wire straightening machine.
5. Repetition hydraulic testing and/or testing by air, excluding setting up of testing equipment.
6. Repetition marking to jigs and/or length gauges.
7. Riveting (10 mm diameter or less).
8. Rough straightening and/or rough flattening of material, excluding the use of rules and straight edges and excluding structural metal work.
9. Rough grinding in jigs and/or to by hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine.
10. Sand and/or shot and/or hydro and/or grit blasting.
11. Striking by hand hammer under instruction of a Rate A to D employee.

 

RATE H

1. Affixing slings under supervision (employees exclusively so employed).
2. Application of anti-corrosive and/or anti-fouling and/or protective coatings.
3. Attending paring and/or shaving and/or planing machine for steel wool manufacture.
4. Baling and/or cutting of scrap other than in workshop.
5. Boiler stoking and/or attending.
6. Dipping in enamel and/or lacquer and/or paint.
7. Holding up for riveting.
8. Loading of rolled sheet coils onto uncoiler and setting of uncoiler release, under supervision.
9. Metal buffing and/or polishing.
10. Metal cleaning by acid and/or by degreasing and/or by pickling and/or by rinsing and/or by fluxing.
11. Operating tumbling barrel.
12. Operating hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine where the operator is not required to grind to marks and/or gauges and/or sizes and/or.
13. Rethreading and/or retapping and/or reclaiming of nuts and/or bolts.
14. Rivet heating.
15. Spraying of enamel and/or paint.
16. Straightening and/or flattening of gussets and/or cleats.
17. Stamping and/or affixing metal labels and/or nameplates.
18. Stretching and/or rough straightening by hand and/or by machine of bars.
19. Furnace loading and/or unloading and/or stoking and/or quenching.
20. General labouring.
21. Oiling and/or greasing.