This determination shall apply to every employer and employee in the Civil Engineering Sector, as defined in subclause (2), in the Republic of South Africa, excluding any employee who is employed as a manager or in a position more senior than that of a manager.
| (1) |
The Civil Engineering Sector means the sector in which employers (other than local authorities) and employees are associated for the purpose of carrying out work of a civil engineering character and includes such work in connection with one or more of the following activities: |
| (a) |
The construction of aerodrome runways or aprons; aqueducts; bins or bunkers; bridges; cable ducts; caissons; rafts or other marine structures; canals; cooling, water or other towers; dams; docks; harbours; quays or wharves; earthworks; encasements; housings or supports for plant, machinery or equipment; factory or works chimneys; filter beds; land or sea defence works; mine headgear; pipelines; piers; railways; reservoirs; river works; roads or streets; sewerage works; sewers; shafts or tunnels; silos; sports fields or grounds; swimming baths; viaducts or water treatment plants; |
| (b) |
excavation work or the construction of foundations, lift shafts, piling, retaining walls, stairwells, underground parking garages or other underground structures; |
| (c) |
the asphalting, concreting, gravelling, levelling or paving of parking areas, pavements, roads, streets, aerodrome runways or aprons, premises or sites; and further includes— |
| (i) |
any work of a similar nature or work incidental to or consequent on any of the aforesaid activities; and |
| (ii) |
the making, repairing, checking or overhauling of tools, vehicles, plant, machinery or equipment in workshops which are conducted by employers engaged in any of the activities referred to in subclauses (2)(a), (2)(b) and (2)(c); but excludes— |
| (aa) |
work in connection with any one or more of the activities specified in subclause (2)(b) where such work, when undertaken in connection with the erection of structures having the general character of buildings and irrespective of whether or not such work involves problems of a civil engineering character, is carried out by the employers erecting such structures; |
| (bb) |
work in connection with any one or more of the activities specified in subclause (2)(c) when undertaken as an incidental operation in connection with the erection of structures having the general character of buildings or when undertaken by the employers erecting such structures; |
| (cc) |
any work falling within the scope of the Iron, Steel, Engineering and Metallurgical Industries as defined in the Main Agreement of the Bargaining Council for that Industry. |
| (2) |
The provisions of clauses 8 to 14 of this determination shall not apply to an employee whose earnings exceed an amount as determined by the Minister of Labour in terms of section 6(3) read with section 59(2)(c) of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997. |
| (3) |
The provisions of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997 shall apply in respect of any employer or employee in the Civil Engineering Sector in so far as a provision thereof provides for any matter that is not regulated by this sectoral determination. |
Financial Management of Parliament Act, 2009
