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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/4

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Schedule in Division D/4 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

 

RATE B

1. Smithing and/or blocking of saws:

 

First six months' experience

Refer to table of wage rates

Second six months' experience

Third six months' experience

Fourth six months' experience

Thereafter

Rate B

 

RATE C

1. Grinding of circular saws to fixed gauges.
2. Repetition sharpening of drills by hand.
3. Setting of dies and/or fixtures and/or guides and/or jigs and/or knives and/or woodworking cutters on production machines, excluding tool setting and rotary and/or reciprocating machines, but including drilling machines.

 

RATE D

1. Heat treatment (supervisory work).
2. Drawing of edge hand and/or small tool under mechanised hammer.
3. Drill sharpening by machine.

 

RATE E

1. Repetition production hand tack welding of edge hand and/or small tools.
2. Repetition operation of 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 loading, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting the tools before and after the power cycle takes over, stopping and unloading, excluding setting up.

 

RATE F

1. Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic machines where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops, excluding setting up.

For the purposes of the above, ‘semi-automatic machine’ is a machine on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and where the manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting tools before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.

2. Repetition production machining of bar on capstan lathes to stops where the work piece is held by devices not necessitating any centralising or trueing, excluding setting up. (This operation is limited to a machine not exceeding 52 mm nominal bore diameter.)
3. Soft soldering and/or sweating by hand (n.e.s.).

 

RATE G

1. Operating routers to templets, excluding setting up.
2. Production checking with or without fixed gauges.
3. Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to marks and/or length gauges and/or stops.
4. Repetition enlarging of holes in circular saws by drilling and/or nonadjustable reamers.
5. Repetition drilling and/or countersinking to jigs and/or stops and/or fixtures.
6. Repetition reaming, using non-adjustable reamers.
7. Repetition drilling to dimples and/or fixtures and/or marks and/or gauges and/or jigs and/or stops and/or pops and/or templets, excluding radial drill.
8. Repetition hot and/or cold bending and/or forming by machine to dies and/or jigs (n.e.s.).
9. Repetition machine swaging and/or forging, using dies on beater picks.
10. Repetition stage loading of forging dies, excluding free-hand manipulation.
11. Repetition marking to jigs and/or templets.
12. Repetition hot and/or cold blanking and/or piercing and/or slitting, using guides and/or jigs and/or stops and/or dies.
13. Repetition hot and/or cold punching, using guides and/or jigs and/or stops and/or dies and/or marks and/or gauges and/or templets.
14. Repetition manual and/or automatic setting and/or sharpening of all types of wood working saws.
15. Repetition hot and/or cold straightening by hand.
16. Stretching and/or rough straightening of bars by hand and/or by machine.

 

RATE H

1. All tool assembling operations.
2. All wood handle-making operations.
3. Grinding and/or polishing, excluding precision grinding.
4. Pin fixing in saw blades.
5. Marking of trade symbols.
6. All packaging operations, including and incidental to addressing, labelling and marking for transport.
7. Scrap cutting.
8. Application of anti-corrosive and/or protective coatings.
9. Sand and/or shot and/or hydro and/or grit blasting.
10. Boiler stoking and/or attending.