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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/3

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

Section (a): General

 

RATE A (n.e.s.)

1. Bricklaying and/or refractory bricklaying and/or masonry work.
2. Carpentry and/or joinery (excluding the preparation of packaging and rough crating).
3. Die and/or jig and/or tool and/or gauge making and/or repairing.
4. Die-sinking and/or engraving.
5. Diesel fitting.
6. Electrical maintenance work and/or installation and/or repair work.
7. Fitting and turning.
8. Fitting, including machining.
9. Inspection when performed by inspectors having journeyman qualifications.
10. Machine tool setting up and/or tool setting.
11. Motor vehicle repairing.
12. Sheetmetal work.
13. Turning, including machining.
14. Welding and/or brazing.

 

RATE AA

1. *Machinist’s work (n.e.s.), viz shaping, slotting, planing, milling (excluding universal milling), grinding (excluding universal grinding) and the operation of gear cutting and rotary machine tools, including vertical turret machine with built-in mono-slide turret and with a table, diameter not exceeding 1 250 mm, but excluding centre lathes (with or without copying. and/or profiling attachments), boring mills (vertical and horizontal type with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), die-sinking machines and universal machines.

*Employees employed on machinist’s work shall be permitted to set up their own work, grind and set their own tools and work to and with precision measuring instruments, including rules, calipers and the like.

2. Supervisory work (n.e.s.):

First six months of experience

Rate B

Thereafter

Rate AA

 

RATE C

1. Setting (n.e.s.) (excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool setting) of dies and/or fixtures and/or stops and/or jigs and/or guides and/or trips on production machines.

 

RATE D

1. Drilling and/or countersinking/(n.e.s.).
2. Machining on repetition work by means of fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops (excluding the requirements of stops for parting off) where the work cycle is manually operated (excluding setting up but including checking with fixed gauges) (including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling, but excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool setting and/or adjusting).
3. Repetition operation of or attending a semi-automatic pull broaching machine where the work cycle is power driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating and/or fixed stops, excluding setting up.

For purposes of the above a ‘semi-automatic pull broaching machine’ is one on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the holding device, passing the broaching tool through the work piece, attaching the broach to the ram, setting the machine in motion for the power cycle to take over and unloading the machine.

 

RATE E

1. Supervising employees employed on classes of work scheduled below Rate E (when so appointed).

 

RATE F

1. Brazing pre-loading forks and/or handle-bars.
2. Dip and/or ring brazing, including patching and/or the replacement of burnt bricks, but excluding re-building.
3. Final adjustment to finished cycles.
4. Repetition lining with paint and/or synthetic material.
5. Repetition gas profile cutting or rear plate working to.
6. Repetition operating special purpose machines (n.e.s.) designed for or permanently adapted for multiple operations in the production of cycle components and/or accessories where no centralising or trueing of the tools is required, excluding setting up, but including the positioning of fixtures.
7. Repetition production machining of cycle components not exceeding 5 kg in mass, to stops where the work is held by devices not necessitating any centralising or trueing, including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling (excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool setting and/or adjusting). (This operation is limited to a machine not exceeding a 55 mm nominal bore diameter).
8. Repetition welding and/or brazing of cycle component parts and/or accessories, using fixtures and/or parts so located as to obviate the need for a fixture.
9. Supervising employees employed on classes of work scheduled below Rate F (when so appointed).
10. Trueing wheels to fixtures and/or on special purpose machine.
11. Operating and/or attending a special purpose machine designed for or adapted for a single operation where the operator only has to load, operate and unload, including positioning of stops to fixed gauges.

 

RATE G

1. Application of enamel and/or paint and/or powder and/or lacquer.
2. Assembling (n.e.s.).
3. Lacing of spokes into wheels.
4. Operating automatic grinding machine.
5. Operating cold heading machine.
6. Operating continuous rolling machines for mudguards and/or wheel rims.
7. Operating fly and/or treadle and/or manual press to pre-set dies and/or stops, including the positioning of stops.
8. Operating forging machine.
9. Operating power press to pre-set dies and/or guides and/or stops.
10. Repetition butt and/or flash and/or projection and/or resistance and/or spot and/or arc spot and/or seam and/or stud welding by machine.
11. Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or sawing and/or shearing to stops and/or length gauges and/or templets and/or marks and/or jigs, including setting of stops and use of rule and/or tape only (excluding power-driven guillotine).
12. Repetition drilling and/or countersinking and/or reaming, using jigs and/or fixtures and/or pops in the mass production of cycle components and/or accessories, including the positioning of fixtures and/or stops and including the use of fixed gauges, provided the adjustable reamers are pre-set by a Rate A or Rate AA employee.
13. Repetition induction brazing of cycle components and/or accessories.
14. Repetition machine swaging and/or doming.
15. Repetition operation of cycle axle profiling machine where the operator’s duties are confined to loading and unloading and stop/start, including repositioning of stops controlling the length of the axle, and including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling (excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool setting and/or adjusting), and including the use of fixed gauges.
16. Repetition operation of spring coiling and/or forming machine.
17. Repetition threading and/or tapping by machine (including positioning of fixtures).
18. Repetition welding of seat pillars in fixtures.
19. Riveting (10 mm diameter or less).
20. Running of nipples and tensioning of spokes in jigs and/or fixtures.
21. Sub-assembling:
(a) Assembly of saddle and/or mudguard components and/or brake work and/or hubs and/or pedals;
(b) pegging of frames and/or forks and/or handlebars in jigs.
22. Tack welding of frame tubing and/or bottom bracket shell and/or back plate, using fixtures.
23. Tube bending to formers and/or stops (including positioning of stops to fixed gauges).
24. Buffing and/or mopping and/or abrasive polishing by machine and/or by hand.
25. Dressing and/or deburring by hand and/or by grinding and/or portable power tools, including changing of tools.
26. Fettling and/or filing and/or removing surplus brass by machine and/or by hand.

 

RATE H

1. Affixing name plates.
2. Application of transfers.
3. Crating and/or packing and/or wrapping for despatch.
4. Grinding ends of spokes in jigs.
5. Inserting metal liners.
6. Plating bath attendant.
7. Random checking with fixed gauges.
8. Repetition stamping of manufacturer’s numbers in sequence.
9. Shot blasting.
10. Spraying of enamel and/or paint and/or lacquer.
11. Tumbling barrel attendant.
12. Assembling and/or nailing of crates.
13. Cleaning and/or degreasing and/or rinsing and/or fluxing and/or etching in baths.
14. Cleaning frames for enameling.
15. Debrassing and/or electrolytic cleaning vat attendant.
16. Dip enamelling and/or phosphating and/or stove attendant.
17. Fitting tyres and/or tubes and/or inflating.
18. Frame flatting (first and second coats).
19. Furnace loading and/or unloading and/or quenching.
20. General labouring.
21. Loading and/or unloading of plating and/or anodising racks.
22. Wiring and/or unwiring of articles for immersion in baths.