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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Extension of the Consolidated Main Collective Agreement to Non-parties (for the period 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2024)

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule D

Division D/O

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

Section (a): General

 

RATE D

1. Assembling of metal sections and/or plate to jigs (n.e.s.).
2. Bending and/or forming (n.e.s.).
3. Bending of tubes and/or sections in manually operated machine to sketch (n.e.s.).
4. Galvanising (supervisory work).
5. Welding and/or brazing and/or bronze welding in fixtures and/or parts so formed and/or located as to obviate the need for a fixture.

 

RATE E

1. Repetition operation of or attending machines permanently adapted for semi-automatic operations (including programme controlled copying lathes), where the work cycle is power driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops, so that manual operations are limited to setting the machine in motion, loading, stopping, unloading, advancing or retracting the tools before and after the power driven cycle takes over (excluding setting up) (excluding any machining during the advancement and/or retraction of the tools).

 

RATE F

1. Feeding centreless grinding machine for batch production work, where the setting is done by a Rate AA employee, including gauging by fixed gauges and/or comparator gauges.
2. Repetition measuring by fixed gauges and/or comparators where the setting is done by a Rate A employee.
3. Repetition production machining of bar and/or tube and/or pipe on capstan lathes to stops, where the work is held by devices not necessitating any centralising or trueing (excluding setting up). (This operation is limited to a machine not exceeding a 55 mm nominal bore diameter.)
4. Repetition soft soldering and/or sweating by hand (n.e.s.).

 

RATE G

1. Assembling of pre-manufactured components from stock requiring no fitting or adjustment, but including deburring.
2. Repetition blanking and/or piercing on presses, using guides and/or jigs and/or stops and/or dies.
1. Repetition countersinking with twist drill and/or rosebit to stops.
4. Repetition drilling to dimples and/or marks and/or fixtures and/or gauges and/or excluding radial drilling machine.
5. Repetition operation of or attending machines designed 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 work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, starting, operating and/or attending, stopping and unloading the machine.
6. Repetition reaming, using non-adjustable reamers.
7. Repetition roll marking
8. Repetition roller bending.
9. Repetition soft soldering of material not exceeding 4 mm in thickness and/or badges and/or medals.
10. Repetition threading and/or tapping.
11. Stripping and/or punching forgings and/or stampings, using dies.

 

RATE H

1. Baling of scrap.
2. Cutting of scrap.
3. Metal coating by dipping under instruction of a Rate A to D employee.
4. Packing of manufactured articles for despatch or sale.