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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 (e): General electrical

 

 

RATE A

1. Electrical fitting (n.e.s.).

 

RATE AA

1. High-potential testing when performed by persons normally engaged in operative processes.

 

RATE C

1. Setting of trips and/or stops on coil forming machine.

 

RATE D

1. Changing of self-locating mandrels and/or formers on coil-winding machines.

 

RATE DDD

1. Repetition wiring to pictorial drawings and/or specimens prepared by a Rate A employee.
2. Routine continuity testing and flash testing up to 2 kV.

 

RATE E

1.        Soft soldering by hand.

 

RATE F

1. Repetition electrical checking of LV switches and/or LV circuit-breakers and/or electrical accessories where minor adjustments to indicators and/or fixed gauges are permitted and rejected articles are returned for remanufacture.

 

RATE G

1. Binding of coils.
2. Connecting preformed and/or prepared wires to predetermined points and/or connections.
3. Forming grooves in ceramic paste and/or covering by dies to jigs.
4. Forming insulations by machine.
5. Forming of mica insulation plates and/or mica sheets.
6. Making connector clips by hand in jigs.
7. Making up of connecting strips.
8. Manual straightening of conductors.
9. Operating wire covering machines.
10. Preparation and mixing of cements and/or pastes and/or ceramic constituents and the application thereof to components.
11. Pressing winding insulation into moulds including preparatory wrapping.
12. Repetition continuity testing of LV switches and/or LV circuit-breakers and/or earth leakage protection units where the operation is confined solely to acceptance or rejection.
13. Repetition crimping of terminals and/or stripping wires and/or cables on copper cables up to 13 mm and aluminium cables up to 25 mm diameter.
14. Repetition cutting and/or preforming sets of wires to jigs and/or fixtures and/or templets and/or length gauges.
15. Spraying of insulating medium.
16. Winding of coils on formers and/or spools not exceeding 150 mm in length and with wire not exceeding 20 mm² by machine, including loading and unloading by the same employee of self-locating mandrels and/or formers.

 

RATE H

1. Attending varnishing machine.
2. Attending resin casting machine.
3. Binding of two or more pieces of insulation together using tape.
4. Cementing of porcelain.
5. Cleaning and/or tinning conductors.
6. Compound filling.
7. Dipping and/or impregnating insulating medium.
8. Minding wire drawing machine.
9. Stripping of moulds from resin casting.