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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 M

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Schedules in Schedule M are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

I. Machining operations

 

RATE A

1.        Machine tool setting up and/or tool-setting.

 

RATE AA

1. *Machinist’s work (n.e.s.), viz shaping, slotting, planing, milling (excluding universal milling), grinding (excluding universal grinding) and the operation of gear cutting and rotary machine tools, including vertical turret machine with built-in mono-slide turret and with a table diameter not exceeding 1 250 mm, but excluding centre lathes (with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), boring mills (vertical and horizontal type with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), die-sinking machines and universal machines.

 

*Employees employed on machinist’s work shall be permitted to set up their own work, grind and set their own tools and work to and with precision measuring instruments, including rules, calipers and the like.

 

RATE B

1.        Operating broaching machine (n.e.s.).

 

RATE C

1. Setting (n.e.s.) (excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool setting) of dies and/or fixtures and/or stops and/or jigs and/or guides and/or trips on production machines.

 

RATE D

1. Machining on repetition work by means of fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops (excluding the requirements of stops for parting off) where the work cycle is manually operated (excluding setting up but including checking with fixed gauges) (including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling, excluding machine tool setting up and/or toolsetting and/or adjustment).
2. Repetition operation of or attending a semi-automatic pull broaching machine where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating and/or fixed stops, excluding setting up.

For the purposes of the above, a ‘semi-automatic pull broaching machine’ is one on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the holding device, passing the broaching tool through the work piece, attaching the broach to the ram, setting the machine in motion for the power cycle to take over and unloading the machine.

3.        Tool grinding in jigs.

4. Grinding on repetition work by means of fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops where the work cycle is manually operated, excluding setting up but including checking with fixed gauges and self-compensating wheel dressing.

 

RATE DD

1. Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic machines (n.e.s.) where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops (excluding setting up) but including checking with fixed gauges and including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling, excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool-setting and/or adjusting.

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 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 the tools (excluding any machining during the advancement and/or retraction of the tools) before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.

2. Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic grinding machines (n.e.s.) where the work cycle is power driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops, excluding setting up but including checking with fixed gauges and self-compensating wheel dressing.

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 manual operations are limited to self-compensating wheel dressing, loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting the grindstone, stopping and unloading the machine.

 

RATE DDD

1. Repetitive operating of a fully automatic machine on quantity production where the operations are confined to loading the machine, where it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand, setting the machine in motion and unloading the work piece, including random checking with fixed gauges (n.e.s.).

 

RATE F

1. Repetition operation of or attending machine 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 work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, starting, operating and/or attending, stopping and unloading the machine (excluding setting up).
2. Repetition operation of a facing and centering machine where the manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, starting, stopping and unloading the machine (excluding setting up).
3. Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic machine where the work cycle is power driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops and the mass of the work pieces loaded does not exceed a mass limitation of 12 kg (excluding setting up but including random checking with fixed gauges).

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 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 the tools (excluding any machining during the advancement and/or retraction of the tools) before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.

 

RATE G

1. Attending fully-automatic machine, including random checking with fixed gauges.

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

2. Operating manual machine designed for or permanently adapted for one only operation where it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand.
3. Production broaching on automatic machine, where the operations prior to and after ramming are limited to loading, setting the machine in motion, stopping and unloading the machine (excluding setting up).
4. Repetition operation and/or attending special purpose machine, including the use of fixed gauges, where the manual operations are limited to loading, setting the machine in motion, stopping and unloading the machine (excluding setting up).
5. Repetition threading and/or tapping by machine (n.e.s.).
6. Operating screwing machine, excluding setting up.