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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 M

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Schedules in Schedule M are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

II. Forming and/or bending and/or press-brake operations

 

RATE AA

1.        Operating press-brake (n.e.s.).

 

RATE C

1.        Roller bending other than repetition roller bending.

 

RATE D

1. Bending of tubes and/or clauses in manually operated machine to sketch (n.e.s.).
2. Bending and/or forming to jigs and/or stops in press-brake and/or folding machine.
3. Press operating (n.e.s.) including the affixing and/or removal of dies where there is positive location (excluding press brake).
4. Repetition roller bending and/or forming of plate with pre-set rolls.

 

RATE G

1. Assisting in removing and/or replacing dies and/or press tools (excluding setting up) under instruction of a Rate C setter.
2. Attending continuous automatic roller forming machine under instruction of a Rate A to D employee.
3. Beading and/or trimming and/or seaming and/or grooving and/or locking double side top or bottom.
4. Bending to stops of pipes and/or tubes (not exceeding 60 mm diameter) and/or clauses (not exceeding 7 mm thick) in manually and/or power operated bending machine.
5. Drop forging and/or stamping, using dies, excluding setting of dies.
6. Fly and/or treadle and/or manual pressing and/or notching and/or power pressing where the work is operated upon with pre-set dies (other than press-brake) (excluding the setting of dies).
7. Hand bending and/or forming to jigs and/or dies and/or stops.
8. Operating power press to preset dies and/or guides and/or length gauges and/or stops and/or templets (excluding setting up) (excluding press-brake).
9. Operating power hammer (hammer driving) under instruction.
10. Operating drop hammer (drop hammer driving).
11. Repetition operation of extrusion press (excluding setting up) where the manual operations are limited to loading, starting, stopping and unloading under instruction of a Rate A to D employee (excluding molten copper based alloys).
12. Repetition roller bending and/or forming of material not exceeding 4 mm.
13. Repetition forging under power hammer using preset forming dies, excluding hand manipulation.
14. Repetition machine forging using dies other than by power hammer.
15. Repetition machine swaging, using dies, excluding power hammer.
16. Repetition frazing and/or pointing machine work.
17. Repetition pointing by semi-automatic machine of flat and/or square bars requiring no dimensional accuracy prior to drawing.
18. Repetition rolling in forging rolls, using segmental rolls.
19. Repetition spinning, using formers.
20. Repetition cold flaring on tube ends (bundy tubing not exceeding 20 mm in diameter).
21. Stripping and/or punching forgings and/or stampings, using pre-set dies.
22. Attending fully automatic grinding machine, including random checking with fixed gauges.

 

For the purposes of the above, ‘fully automatic machine’ is a machine fitted with an automatic device, ie magazine and/or table and/or mechanical arm fed, and manual operations are limited to setting the machine in motion, loading the magazine, as the case may be, activating the wheel dressing device and stopping the machine.