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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/15

Spring Manufacturing Division

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/15 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

 

 

The following operations in the manufacture of springs:

 

*RATE Al

1. Forging under the hammer, other than tapering and spear-pointing and/or scarfing and/or bending and/or joggling with dies.

*Note: Wage rates applicable to Rate Al to be the same as Rate A.

 

RATE AA

1.        Supervisory work.

 

RATE C

1.        Spring making (n.e.s.):

Learnership:

First six months of experience

Rate D

Thereafter

Rate C

 

RATE D

1. Operating and/or attending buckle facing machine.
2. Repetition bending and/or joggling and/or scarfing and/or spear-pointing and/or tapering, using spring and/or pneumatic hammers with dies.
2. Repetition coiling and/or opening and/or eye rolling to jigs and/or dies and/or stops, including running compensating adjustments only on the employee’s own type of machine, including the use of preset fixed gauges, excluding setting up.

 

RATE G

1. Assembling of pre-manufactured components from stock requiring no fitting or adjustment but including deburring.
2. Assisting in removing and replacing dies and/or tools (excluding setting up) under effective supervision.
3. Attending fully-automatic machine, including random checking with fixed gauges.

For the purposes of the above, ‘fully-automatic machine’ is a bar-fed or coil-fed machine or a machine fitted with an automatic chucking device (i.e. magazine and/or table and/or mechanical arm fed) the manual operations of which are limited to setting the machine in motion and stopping and feeding a new bar or coil into the machine or loading the magazine, as the case may be.

4. Operating rod and/or wire straightening and/or cutting machine, including the use of rule and/or tape and the setting of stops for cutting to length (n.e.s.).
5. Operating slitting machine under effective supervision, excluding setting up.
6. Operating spring end grinding machine.
7. Repetition bending to dies and/or jigs and/or length gauges and/or stops and/or templets using gas torch.
8. Repetition coiling and/or opening and/or eye rolling to jigs and/or dies and/or stops.
9. Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to and/or marks and/or stops and/or templets length gauges.
10. Repetition drilling and/or countersinking to marks and/or fixtures and/or pops and/or templets and/or jigs (other than radial drilling).
11. Repetition looping and/or opening and/or trimming by manually operated machines or tools to jigs and/or fixtures and/or dies.
12. Repetition marking to jigs and/or templets.
13. Repetition operation of or attending machines designed for or permanently adapted for a single tool operation where it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and where manual operations are limited to loading the workpiece into the holding device of the machine, starting, operating and/or attending, stopping and unloading the machine (excluding setting up).
14. Repetition operation of pre-set reducing rolls.
15. Repetition tapering of hot springs using rolls.
16. Routine checking and/or testing to pre-set fixed gauges.

 

RATE H

1. Repetition operation of and/or attending scragging machines.
2. Repetition operation of automatic straightening machine.
3. Reshaping and/or resetting of springs damaged or distorted in production.
4. Shot peening by machine.
5. Striking by hand hammer under effective supervision.
6. All packaging operations, including and incidental to addressing, labelling and marking for transport.