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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 G

Section (i): Radio, Television, Refrigeration and Related Equipment and Domestic Electrical Appliances Section (installation, repair and servicing)

 

The provisions of this section shall be applicable throughout the Provinces of the Transvaal and Natal to employers and employees engaged in the installation and/or repair and/or servicing of radios and/or refrigeration and/or domestic electrical appliances and/or television sets and/or monitors (excluding monitors that are primarily intended for use in accounting and/or business procedures) and/or video recorders and/or decoders, together with all components and/or equipment made for use in and with such equipment.

 

For the purpose of this section—

 

‘domestic appliance mechanic’s work’, ‘radio and television communications serviceman’s work’, ‘radiotrician’s work’, ‘refrigerator mechanic’s work’, and ‘radio and television repairer’s work’ mean one or more of the following classes of work:

Diagnosing of faults in, or directing or executing repairs or adjustments to, or servicing, erecting and/or installing or supervising the erection and/ or installation of, ranges, refrigerators and domestic electrical appliances, radio and/or wireless instruments, electrical sound reproducing apparatus, television sets and/or monitors and/or video recorders and/or decoders, and the carrying out of final tests or the supervision of such operations, but does not include connecting up to (or disconnecting from) existing outlets and/ or the erection of radio aerials or work done in connection with the manufacture of such appliances, apparatus and instruments;

 

‘domestic electrical appliance’ means any appliance designed to be used mainly for domestic household purposes, and operating by or using electricity.

 

Note: Notwithstanding the provisions of Part I, clause 19(4), of this Agreement, employees who are in possession of documentary proof that they have three or more year’s practical and theoretical experience in the radio and/or television mechanician field and/or similar such artisan activity shall, for the purposes of this Schedule, be entitled to apply for and obtain a certificate of recognition of artisan status from the Council as provided for under clause 19(4): Provided that should an employee be unable to support the application with documentary proof of practical and/or theoretical experience satisfactory to the Council, the employee shall be entitled to request an ATRAMI test by an establishment nominated by the Council. Upon successful completion of the test, the employee shall be issued with the certificate of recognition as provided for in clause 19(4).

 

RATE A

1.        Domestic appliance mechanic’s work.

2.        Radio and television communications serviceman’s work.

3.        Radio and television repairer’s work.

4.        Refrigerator mechanic’s work (commercial and industrial).

 

RATE AA

1.          Workshop assistant’s work.

 

RATE D

1.          Installation of aerial on user’s premises:

 

First 12 months of experience

Rate DD

Thereafter

Rate D

 

RATE DD

1. Installation of temporary public address systems but excluding final testing, under supervision of a Rate A employee.
2. Mechanical and electrical installation of radios and/or television and similar equipment.

 

RATE DDD

The following operations, when performed in the workshops of an establishment in connection with the repair of heating and/or drying and/or personal care appliances of a load not exceeding 5 amperes except in the case of domestic heating appliances where the load does not exceed 15 amperes:

1. Repair and/or replacement of heating elements on appliances.
2. Repair and/or replacement of ceramic or other insulating spacers and/or formers used for heating elements, including fixing.
3. Repair and/or re-assembly of heating element containers.
4. Removing and/or replacing of motors not exceeding 750 watts at the direction of a Rate A employee, excluding final testing.

 

RATE F

1. Stripping and cleaning of appliances under supervision of a Rate A or AA employee.
2. Removal from and/or fitting into cabinets of assembled radiogram and/or television and/or radio chassis and/or television chassis.

 

RATE G

1. Preparation of wire ends under supervision.
2. Buffing and/or polishing.
3. Spraying of paint for protective purposes.
4. Re-assembly of panels onto cabinets and/or other outer casings.
5. Inserting batteries in portable radios, tape recorders, gramophones, televisions and/or personal care appliances, including plugging in the battery connections.

 

RATE H

1. General labouring, including preparing surfaces for painting and/or soldering.

 

For the purposes of this section—

‘workshop assistant’s work’ means routine stripping of radios and/or appliances, replacement of components taken from stock and fitting adjustments confined to working within predetermined limits, including acceptance testing, undertaken in the workshop.

 

 


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